The devil comes to Moscow wearing a fancy suit. With his disorderly band of accomplices - including a demonic, gun-toting tomcat - he immediately begins to create havoc.

Disappearances, destruction and death spread through the city like wildfire and Margarita discovers that her lover has vanished in the chaos. Making a bargain with the devil, she decides to try a little black magic of her own to save the man she loves ...

'A masterpiece of magical surrealism, a triumph of the imagination' Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Century
'Magnificent ... a gloriously ironic gothic masterpiece' Patrick McGrath, Guardian