A Dog's Heart

When a respected surgeon decides to transplant human body parts into a stray dog, he creates a monster drunken, profligate, aggressive, and selfish. It seems the worst aspects of the donor have been transplanted as well. As his previously well-regulated home descends into riotous chaos, the doctor r [...]
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When a respected surgeon decides to transplant human body parts into a stray dog, he creates a monster drunken, profligate, aggressive, and selfish. It seems the worst aspects of the donor have been transplanted as well. As his previously well-regulated home descends into riotous chaos, the doctor realises he will have to try to reverse the operation; but the dog isn t so keen. Wild, uproarious and deliriously comic, Bulgakov s short novel is at once a comment on the problems of 1920s Russia and a lasting satire on human nature."