Books like The Master and Margarita
The Devil visits 1930s Moscow with a giant cat, a naked witch, and a vaudeville show, exposing the lies of Soviet society while a novelist rewrites the story of Pontius Pilate.
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Heart of a Dog
A stray dog in 1920s Moscow is surgically transformed into a human, and the resulting creature becomes a savage satire of the New Soviet Man.
The Satanic Verses
Two Indian actors survive a terrorist attack on their plane over the English Channel, and Gibreel begins turning into the archangel Gabriel while Saladin turns into a goatish devil, in a novel about migration, identity and faith.
The Tin Drum
A boy born with a scream that can shatter glass drums his way through the horrors of Nazi Germany, refusing to grow up in a world not worth being adult in.
Absurdistan
The 325-pound son of a Russian oligarch, barred from returning to his beloved New York, gets caught up in a civil war over oil in a tiny former Soviet republic.
Shame
In a country that is and is not Pakistan, two feuding politicians' families are bound by marriage to a girl whose blushes of shame turn into violence.
The Tsar of Love and Techno
Linked stories across eighty years of Russian history, beginning with a 1930s Leningrad censor who erases purged enemies from paintings and photographs, and following a single painted landscape into post-Soviet Chechnya.
The Screwtape Letters
A senior devil writes thirty-one letters of advice to his junior-devil nephew on how to damn a young English Christian, across the first years of the London blitz.
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
Ximen Nao, a landowner executed in the land reform of 1950, protests his innocence in hell and is sent back to his village as a donkey, then an ox, a pig, a dog and a monkey, to watch China change over fifty years.
Bliss
Harry Joy, an advertising man in an Australian city, is dead for nine minutes after a heart attack, and when he comes back he decides he is in Hell.
Nights at the Circus
A winged cockney trapeze artist at the turn of the century is investigated by a sceptical American reporter who then joins her circus tour across Russia.
Baltasar and Blimunda
In eighteenth-century Portugal, a one-handed war veteran and a woman who can see inside people's bodies help a renegade priest build a flying machine while the king raises a vast convent and the Inquisition watches.
In the First Circle
Over three days in December 1949, imprisoned scientists in a special prison outside Moscow work on secret projects for Stalin's police while a diplomat makes a dangerous phone call.