WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOVA rich,successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man. A distinctly worryingly human animal is now on the loose,and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance. An absurd and superbly comic story,this classic novel can also be read as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099529941Number of pages: 144Weight: 106 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 8 mm
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As high-spirited as it is pointed. Unlike so much satire,it has a splendid sense of funA marvellous writerBulgakov here assaults the dour utilitarian lives of Soviet citizens with a defiant,boisterous display of nonsense
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