This satirical novella purports to be a translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog, itself a satire on the Soviet Union of the 1920s, where it was immediately banned. Written a century later, The Mind of a Cat translates Bulgakov's story into something much more pertinent to modern times by substituting a cat for the dog and an operatic diva for the brawling busker whose transplanted gonads and pituitary gland transform the animal...