Satan, Judas, a Soviet writer, and a talking black cat named Behemoth populate this satire, " a classic of twentieth-century fiction" ( The New York Times). In 1930s Moscow, Satan decides to pay the good people of the Soviet Union a visit. In old Jerusalem, the fateful meeting of Pilate and Yeshua and the murder of Judas in the garden of Gethsemane unfold. At the intersection of fantasy and…