A superb comic masterpiece and fierce parable of the Russian Revolution by the author of The Master and Margarita.

With a new introduction by Andrey Kurov

A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into 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.