The Golden Calf by Ilya Ilf, Konstantin Gurevich, Evgeny Petrov, Helen Anderson

323 pages first pub 1931 (editions)

fiction classics funny reflective medium-paced
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Ostap Bender, the "grand strategist," is a con man on the make in the Soviet Union during the New Economic Policy (NEP) period. He’s obsessed with getting one last big score—a few hundred thousand will do—and heading for Rio de Janeiro, where ther...

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