The Cat and the General

The new masterpiece by the award-winning author Alexander Orlov, a Russian oligarch and called "The General" by everyone, has started a new life in Berlin. But the memories of his deployment in the First Chechen War won't let him go. The darkest is that of the cruelest of all nights, after which nothing remained of the young Chechen girl Nura but a great unatoned debt. The time of reckoning has come. In her new novel, Nino Haratischwili traces the abysses that have opened up between the ruins of the crumbling Soviet empire. The Cat and the General is a suspenseful, psychologically profound novel of guilt and atonement about war in countries and in minds, about the longing for peace and redemption. As in a Rubik's cube, the fates of the characters twist into each other, around a hidden axis.