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The Master and Margarita
Paperback, 372 pages, Random House Inc, List Price: $14 | purchase
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- Political fiction,
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- Moscow (Russia),
- Soviet Union,
- Jerusalem,
- History,
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Three Books...
Beyond Banned: Books That Survived The Censors
March 30, 2011 In the 1970s, writer Elena Gorokhova sat in her apartment in St. Petersburg — then Leningrad — writing books she knew wouldn't make it past the censors. She recommends three revolutionary reads affirming that the human voice endures, even under the most suffocating circumstances.
Read Any Good Books?
'The Master and Margarita' by Mikhail Bulgakov
November 3, 2005 Barbara, a reader in Nashville, calls Bulgakov's novel "imaginative, grotesque, and beautiful."
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