# A Dog's Heart

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- Book: [A Dog's Heart](https://www.bookquiver.com/mikhail-bulgakov/a-dogs-heart) ([A Dog's Heart.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mikhail-bulgakov/a-dogs-heart.md))
- Authors: [Michail Bulgakov](https://www.bookquiver.com/mikhail-bulgakov)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4174-628-8
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2025-04-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

What would happen if a doctor implanted the pituitary gland and testicles of a man into the body of a stray dog? In Mikhail Bulgakov’s topsy-turvy world, the dog starts to walk on two legs, drink, smoke, thieve, chase women and recite every swear word in Russian. The perfect candidate for a government official, in other words. This rude, riotous send-up of the Soviet Union, banned immediately on publication, is satire red in tooth and claw.