Heart of a Dog (Picador Books)

by Mikhail Bulgakov (Author), M . Glenny (Translator), Mirra Ginsburg (Translator)

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  Paperback
  1990

  $12.52

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  Paperback
  2009

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  A 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.