Download or read book Baize-covered Table with Decanter written by Vladimir Makanin and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hero of Baize-Covered Table undergoes a searching bureaucratic investigation, that staple of the old Soviet and even older Russian police state. With the naked intensity of personal nightmare, the hero visits and returns to the stark scene of his inquisition: the bare room, the table, the ever-present decanter, and behind the table those recurring phantoms, 'The Party Man, ' 'The Young Wolf, ' 'The Almost Pretty Woman, ' 'The One Who Asks the Questions.'.