Reading group: The Master and Margarita is our book for June

Mikhail Bulgakov’s Soviet fantasia novel was chosen by several readers as our fiction in translation for this month – and the hat agreed. Let’s read!

The Master and Margarita is this month’s Reading group choice. It was nominated by commenter Saorsa and seconded by several others, one of whom called it “one of the best novels ever written”.

Certainly, it’s a book that has stood the test of time. In fact, as luck has it, this year marks the 50th anniversary of the first attempt to bring it to publication, following a tortuous gestation.

Related: The Master and Margarita showed me just how easy it is to mess up a nation | Viv Groskop

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