The Master and Margarita & Heart of a Dog by Amazon.co.uk

Kindle Edition£0.40

Hardcover£9.78

Paperback£19.78

Audio CD£179.98

Price last update: 10/08/2023

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"In The Master and Margarita, Bulgakov crafts a captivating allegorical tale set in the Soviet Union under Stalin\'s tyranny. The story follows the life of the Master, a man committed to the truth, as he navigates his way through a corrupt asylum system where demons appear as real flesh-and-blood inhabitants of the Moscow heaving underfoot with disoriented individuals of every age, education, profession and nationality, as if the apocalypse were taking place all around and over him. When the devil comes to town to present the master with a choice between following him or getting stoned at his favorite jazz joint - which was just where a naked girl happened to sit at an outdoor cafe that night while eating raw honey from her navel to quell a Soviet cold virus," reads the product description. The story takes a dark but absurdistic tone as Margarita enters, played with all the gumption and sass of Bessie Smith and a crossword-set-solving Soviet NKVD functionary as the only hope to defeat the Satanic menace and restore decency, if not sanity."As I finished the novel," notes the description, "I sensed that it had left an indelible impression on me, forging through my own psyche like a lighthouse that guided me through the storms of war, parenthood, heartbreak, loss, love, and hope that had tested me with such tenacity ever since."As Bulgakov had predicted to close friends back in Moscow that fateful year of the student uprisings and Red Army\'s defeats on all sides. Thus do we see why we can read his words of both great irony and poetic evocation."And so, Grapevine India is pleased to reintroduce the legacy of Mikhail Bulgakov\'s masterpiece in this age of artificial intelligence where every page, font, line-read of any novel - any art for that matter-beams with precision on electronic platforms in India as well."As if a sorcerer\'s voice is being translated here from behind those enigmatic veils by someone with equal expertise in both ancient languages and futuristic communication systems."Pour your Kindle\'s pages wide with our special eagle\'s view for the print in a font that even makes Shakespeare\'s plays of length, page count that we don\'t think is necessary on a reader for now as you take an ebullient journey across our mother-root land of poetry in that sweetest moment -the hour we say of great reward by that fire where the air crackles."Enhance and customize the read with voice synthesis for accented reading experience that Bulgakov, in this Soviet era and now on this global timespace would so treasure.In sum, "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov is an unforgettable treat of poetic dialogue in that riddle of his making. "