One -story America

America of the 1930s through the eyes of two glorified satiric writers.

The luxurious Hollywood of the “Golden Age”, the bohemian San Francisco and New Orleans, the cradle of gangster clans-the dashing Chicago, the incomparable New York in all its brilliance and poverty, exotic Indian reservations, quiet provincial towns...

Ilf and Petrov seemed new to us now for us to be familiar - tomato juice and hamburgers, refrigerators and vibrorsers, car dealerships and advertising shares, striptease in nightclubs and, of course, the sensational novelty of the 30s alcohol. - Beer in banks.

Perhaps that is why their book now causes the reader not only laughter, but also a nostalgic smile.