Zoyka's Apartment — Mikhail Bulgakov

Zoyka's Apartment captures the exotic image and the real heartbeat of an amazing city at a fascinating moment: Moscow in the Soviet equivalent of the roaring 20's, in a pause between the cyclone of the revolution and the inferno of the purges, a window of desperate opportunity. Tremendous danger mingles with heady excitement, as everyone scrambles to get together as many rubles as possible and escape to Paris before the inevitable crackdown.

How will smart, bold, practical Zoyka manage to get enough rubles in a hurry? Her only assets are a large apartment and an even larger imagination...