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Written during the reign of real-life monster Joseph Stalin but only published decades later, this novel is a sharp satire of that dictator’s mad regime, as well as a phantasmagoria of shape-shifting creatures and magical escapades. It also flashes back and forth in time between the Soviet Union and the struggles of Pontius Pilate, the governor of Judea who according to myth sentenced Jesus Christ to death despite his own reservations. At the beginning of the novel, the mysterious Professor Wola
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