{"product_id":"9781784350239","title":"The Twelve Chairs: Dvenadtsat' stul'ev","description":"The Twelve Chairs is a classic satirical novel by the Odessan Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, released in 1928. Its main character Ostap Bender, who knows \"four hundred comparatively honest ways of taking money away from the population\" and has no future in the post revolutionary Soviet Union. \u003cbr\u003eIn the Soviet Union in 1927, a former member of the nobility, Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, works as a desk clerk. His mother-in-law reveals on her deathbed that her family jewellery had been hidden from the Bolsheviks in one of the twelve chairs from the family's dining room set.\u003cbr\u003eBender befriends him as they set out on a wild-goose chase after the missing chairs.\u003cbr\u003eThe Twelve Chairs satirizes not only its central characters, but also the people and institutions they encounter.","brand":"JiaHu Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046062211312,"sku":"9781784350239","price":13.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781784350239_p0.jpg?v=1763725904","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781784350239","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}