Talking Location With … Sophie Morton-Thomas – NORFOLK
The Heart Of A Dog
Location(s): Russia
Genre(s): Comedy, Fiction
Era(s): Contemporary
A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it 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.
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