{"product_id":"9780802190031","title":"Heart of a Dog","description":"This hilarious, brilliantly inventive novel by the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Master and Margarita\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of a scroungy Moscow mongrel named Sharik. Thanks to the skills of a renowned Soviet scientist and the transplanted pituitary gland and testes of a petty criminal, Sharik is transformed into a lecherous, vulgar man who spouts Engels and inevitably finds his niche in the bureaucracy as the government official in charge of purging the city of cats.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeart of a Dog\u003c\/i\u003e, written in 1925, remained unpublished in the Soviet Union until 1987. Its satire is as ferocious and timely now as when it was written.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078442533104,"sku":"9780802190031","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802190031_p0.jpg?v=1763665994","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802190031","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}