Paperback, 124 pages
English language
Published Dec. 31, 2008 by Vintage.
Paperback, 124 pages
English language
Published Dec. 31, 2008 by Vintage.
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. An absurd and superbly comic story, this classic novel can also be read as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution.