This book has two main stories which it skips back and forth between. The first set in Moscow and the second in biblical Jerusalem. It is a satire on communist Russian attitudes towards religion and the arts. It is also completely bonkers. To fully understand all the references and allusions of which there are many you would need to be Russian but you can still get a lot out of it with little knowledge. I found the notes at the end of the book very useful..
This book has been the subject of songs by both the Rolling Stones and Pearl Jam so it must be pretty good. I enjoyed it a lot but felt that there was an awful lot going on which passed about a mile over my head.
8/10
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