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The Twelve Chairs: A Novel

By Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov, Anne O. Fisher (Translator), Alexandra Ilf (Foreword by)
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By Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov, Anne O. Fisher (Translator), Alexandra Ilf (Foreword by)
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Winner, 2012 Northern California Book Award for Fiction in Translation

More faithful to the original text and its deeply resonant humor, this new translation of The Twelve Chairs brings Ilf and Petrov’s Russian classic fully to life. The novel’s iconic hero, Ostap Bender, an unemployed con artist living by his wits, joins forces with Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, a former nobleman who has returned to his hometown to look for a cache of missing jewels hidden in chairs that have been appr...

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FictionLiteratureWorld FictionLiterary FictionLiterary CriticismRussian FictionRussian Literature20th Century Russian Fiction - Under Soviet-RuleGeneral & Miscellaneous Russian Literature - Literary Criticism