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Name: Heart of a Dog

Author: Mikhail Bulgakov
Year: 1925
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Genres/categories:
Fiction, Science fiction, Classic, Fantasy, Politics
Culture: Russia

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ISBNs:
9780802150592
0802150594

This hilarious, brilliantly inventive novel by the author of The Master and Margarita tells the story of a scroungy Moscow mongrel named Sharik. Thanks to the skills of a renowned Soviet scientist and the transplanted pituitary gland and testes of a petty criminal, Sharik is transformed into a lecherous, vulgar man who spouts Engels and inevitably finds his niche in the bureaucracy as the government official in charge of purging the city of cats.
Heart of a Dog, written in 1925, remained unpublished in the Soviet Union until 1987. Its satire is as ferocious and timely now as when it was written.