A Country Doctor's Notebook

Synopsis

Translated by michael glennywith the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old dr mikhail bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffected by such novelties as the motor car, the telephone or electric light. How his alter-ego copes (or fails to cope) with the new and often appalling responsibilities of a lone doctor in a vast country practice - on the eve of revolution - is described in bulgakov's delightful blend of candid realism and imaginative exuberance.