About this audiobook
"Twelve chairs" of Ilya Ilfa and Evgeny Petrova is the absolute masterpiece of the domestic satire, a blisting Plutov novel and one of the most cited books in Russian. This is a sincere, dynamic and fatiguously funny story of the pursuit of ghost wealth on the background of the colourful life of the early Soviet era. The story revolves around the former leader of the nobleship, Ipolite Matveevich Vorobyaninov (He is also Kisa), who is buried in the grey Soviet reality. From the dying cage he learns an incredible secret: in one of the twelve living chairs of the master's work, the family diamonds of huge value are hidden. Kiss is thrown into the search for a treasure, but the fate brings him together with the young, charming and cynical adventurer Ostap Bender – a “big combinator” who knows “quarters of relatively honest ways to take money.” That’s how the legendary duet is born, who goes on a mad journey throughout the country, depriving his main competitor – the hungry father Fedor. Ilfu and Petrov managed to create not just a murderous comedy with clothes and affairs, but an immortal gallery of human types, errors and stupidities that remain relevant at any time. About what the book in three words: Diamonds, Adventure, Combinator. Who to read: Everyone who wants to raise the mood with a standard humor, appreciates genius vocabulary picks and loves exciting adventure stories about aferists.
