

Mikhail and Margarita
Author: Julie Lekstrom Himes
Narrator: Michael Goldstrom
Unabridged: 12 hr
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Published: 03/14/2017
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Synopsis
Ranging between lively readings in the homes of Moscow's literary elite to the Siberian Gulag, Mikhail and Margarita recounts a passionate love triangle while painting a portrait of a country whose towering literary tradition is at odds with a dictatorship that does not tolerate dissent. Margarita is a strong, idealistic, seductive woman who is fiercely loved by two very different men, both of whom will fail in their attempts to shield her from the machinations of a regime hungry for human sacrifice. Debut novelist Julie Lekstrom Himes launches a rousing defense of art and the artist during a time of systematic deception, and she movingly portrays the ineluctable consequences of love for one of history's most enigmatic literary figures.