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Name: Heart of a Dog

Author: Mikhail Bulgakov
Year: 1925
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Popularity: 4.3
Genres/categories: Fiction, Science fiction, Classic, Fantasy, Politics
Culture: Russia

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ISBN:
9780099479338
0099479338
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Heart of a Dog, written in 1925, remained unpublished in the Soviet Union until 1987.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.
About the author:
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) was a Russian writer, medical doctor and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, which has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.

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