{"product_id":"heart-of-a-dog-mikhail-bulgakov-paperback","title":"Heart of a Dog -- Mikhail Bulgakov, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"There could not be a colder, more contemptuous criticism of Soviet reality . . . There were glorious writers in the Stalin period, and Bulgakov was the greatest.\"--Doris Lessing, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Bulgakov is richly inventive, with an eye for the grotesque and the satirical.\"--Joyce Carol Oates\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the highly celebrated author of \u003ci\u003eThe Master and Margarita \u003c\/i\u003ecomes the darkly funny and brilliantly inventive short novel in which a celebrated surgeon's radical experiment produces a monstrous mirror of the society he sought to perfect\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen rich, successful Professor Preobrazhensky befriends a scroungy Moscow mongrel named Sharik, he attempts a scientific first--transplanting into the stray dog the testes and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man. With a lecherous, vulgar human animal now on the loose, the professor's hitherto respectable life descends into chaos as Sharik inevitably finds his niche in the bureaucracy as the government official in charge of purging the city of cats. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in 1925 but unpublished in the Soviet Union until 1987, \u003ci\u003eHeart of a Dog\u003c\/i\u003e is a bitingly comic masterpiece and one of the essential works of twentieth-century Russian literature. Called \"an anarchic, resistant work of genius\" by \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and a \"as clean and bright as a scalpel\" by\u003ci\u003e The Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e, this is Mikhail Bulgakov at his most inventive. In exposing the folly of trying to remake human nature by force and ideology, this satire is as ferocious and timely now as when it was written.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Mikhail Bulgakov\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1\/21\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.25 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.1\" H x 5.3\" L x 0.5\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780802150592\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flowerburst","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50574782857520,"sku":"9780802150592","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2712\/8368\/files\/9780802150592.jpg?v=1784236968","url":"https:\/\/flowerburst.co\/products\/heart-of-a-dog-mikhail-bulgakov-paperback","provider":"Flowerburst","version":"1.0","type":"link"}