Dvanaest stolica
The main character of the novel is the ingenious swindler Ostap Bender, who this time is looking for diamonds in one of 12 upholstered chairs blown up across the Soviet Union.
With his stories, Ostap Bender talked about a whole series of picturesque figures - bureaucrats, small townspeople, petty thieves, local powerful people, naive conspirators against the government, journalists whose vocabulary is full of postal clubs and phrases, actors on a summer tour, Komsomol women in love, a grandmother witch doctor and several local chess masters inclined to believe that their small town can become the center of the chess world. Ostap outsmarted all these immature opponents in different ways; he instilled fear into some people's bones, squeezed the last clothes out of others, while others he just mocked, took off their masks or broke their hearts...
One copy is available
- Traces of patina
- Slight damage to the cover
