One -story America. Ilf I.A., Petrov E.P.

America of the 1930s through the eyes of two glorified satirists.

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

Ilf and Petrov seemed new and unfamiliar to everything that has become familiar to us now - 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.