by Boris Pilniak · Veintisiete Letras · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788492720101
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Caoba is a masterpiece about the Russian Revolution, its promises, and its decline. The novel, with electrifying prose and cinematographic structure, follows two antique dealers who buy furniture from those who get rid of them to eat. Behind the trade of mahogany and Russian cabinetmaking, the tragic dimension of a lost opportunity is revealed. This edition includes four stories: «A story about how stories are written», «The city of Ordynin», «The millennium» and «To Old Cheese of Che-shire», which narrate the lives of peasants, bourgeois, exiles, and fanatics in the Russia of the time.
Boris Andreyevich Pilnyak was a Russian and Soviet writer who was executed by the Soviet government on false claims of plotting to kill Joseph Stalin and Nikolay Yezhov.
