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An explosive collection of short stories which display all of Bulgakov's surreal inventiveness and biting satirical humour

About the Author

Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940) was born and educated in Kiev where he graduated as a doctor in 1916. He rapidly abandoned medicine to write some of the greatest Russian literature of this century. After a lifetime at odds with the stultifying Soviet regime, he died impoverished and blind in 1940, shortly after completing his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita. None of his major fiction was published during his lifetime.

Reviews

One of the greatest modern Russian writers, perhaps the greatest
*Independent*

A writer of fantastic genius
*Sunday Times*

Bulgakov is a wild, mobile, crafty devotee of ideas
*Guardian*