Boris Andreevich Pilnyak (1894–1938) is a famous Russian writer of the 20–30s of the 20th century, the founder of one of the avant-garde movements in literature. During the years of repression he was shot. The proposed Collected Works of the writer is the first, after decades of ban, multi-volume edition of his legacy, which includes basically all of the author’s works restored from cuts and distortions. The fifth volume of the Collected Works includes the novels “Okay. American Novel", "Stones and Roots" and stories.