Product Description

A mysterious stranger appears in a Moscow park. Soon he and his retinue have astonished the locals with the magic show to end all magic shows. But why are they really here, and what has it got to do with the beautiful Margarita, or her lover, the Master, a silenced writer? A carnival for the senses and a diabolical extravaganza, this most exuberant of Russian novels was staged in this adaptation at Chichester Festival Theatre.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #181268 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01-29
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

Daily Telegraph, August 2, 2004
The Master and Margarita comes over like a grown-up and vastly superior version of Harry Potter.

Daily Telegraph, August 2, 2004
Outstanding adaptation...breathtaking in its ambition and originality...the literary range is extraordinary

The Guardian, July 31, 2004
An extraordinary mixture of Faustian romance, anti-Stalinist satire and religious enquiry.

Customer Reviews

I can't wait to read it again!
Until my late teens I didn't much care for novels - school, frankly, could have offered better, plus there was just too much interesting non-fiction out there.

The novel that changed all that was Heller's Catch 22. Years later no other novel had gotten close, and it was safely occupying its unique position as my "greatest novel of all time".

That is until Mr Bulgakhov was brought to my attention! A Russian friend would just not stop going on about it.

I can't claim to have been wowed by every literary flourish here (I'm not a mature enough reader to see them!), and I certainly didn't spot the most subtle digs at the communist Russia Bulgakhov inhabited, but I certianly was gripped from beggining to end.

This is a very funny, very clever, well constructed and well written book that I can't wait to read again soon.

I would strongly urge...........
........potential readers to avoid and ignore the review below entitled 'What is so great about this book really?' and instead read the review 'Caution: Hypnotists in Moscow!' by A. L. Stannard. This book is quite simply a masterpiece!

What is so great about this book really?
Oh dear - everyone else seems to rave about this book, but I found it very difficult to read and have just decided to give up on it two thirds of the way through. Yes, there are some funny and disturbing scenes that kept me reading through those bits, but the beginning of the second part has killed off my waning interest. There are far better satires about Soviet life and it shouldn't need devils and witches to bring it off.