Mirra Ginsburg
5) Clay boy
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Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1997
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English
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Wanting a son, an old man and woman make a clay boy who comes to life and begins eating everything in sight until he meets a clever goat.
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I first read Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita on a balcony of the Hotel Metropole in Saigon on three summer evenings in 1971. The tropical air was heavy and full of the smells of cordite and motorcycle exhaust and rotting fish and wood-fire stoves, and the horizon flared ambiguously, perhaps from heat lightning, perhaps from bombs. Later each night, as was my custom, I would wander out into the steamy back alleys of the city, where no one...
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One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, Accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness of chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves...
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Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
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"Folktales from the peoples and nations incorporated in the Soviet Union. Includes tales of/from Russia, Azerbaidzhan, Byelorussia, Evenks, Latvia, Uygurs, Soviet Armenia, Moldavia, Karelians, Central Asia, Nanay, and Avars." --