num_pages: 128
description: This title is presented with a new introduction by Andrey Kurkov. 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.
language: English
title: The Heart of a Dog
titlecomplete: The Heart of a Dog
characters: Darya Petrovna Ivanova, Poligraph Poligraphovich Sharikov, Dr. Philip Philipovich Preobrazhensky, Zinaida Prokofievna Bunina, Dr. Ivan Arnoldovich Bormenthal, Schwonder
genres: Russian Literature, Fiction, Humor, Russia, 20th Century, Literature, Fantasy, Classics, Novels, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 56490
places: Soviet Union, Moscow, Russia
publisher: Harvill Press