The Little Golden Calf

Interesting Facts

• The book is a sequel to the novel The Twelve Chairs and continues the adventures of Ostap Bender.
• In this book, Ostap Bender dreams of Rio de Janeiro and aims to gather money for a trip there.
• The novel satirizes various aspects of Soviet reality, including bureaucracy and corruption.
• One of the main characters, Alexander Ivanovich Koreiko, is an underground millionaire, which becomes the focus of Ostap Bender's interest.
• The book was co-authored with Yevgeny Petrov.
• The novel was first published in 1931 and quickly became popular among readers.
• Many phrases from the book became catchphrases, such as "Foreign lands will help us" and "The ice has broken, gentlemen of the jury!"