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Die Katze und der General
“The Cat and the General” (title translated by AI)
Nino Haratischwili (born 1983)
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Alexander Orlov, a Russian oligarch whom everyone calls 'the General', has started a new life in Berlin. But he cannot escape his memories of the First Chechen War, above all of the cruellest night, after which nothing remained of the young Chechen woman Nura but a great unatoned guilt. The time for a reckoning has come, and his plan of atonement leads via Moscow and Marrakesh deep into the Caucasus. Beneath the thriller run questions about how a toxic past reaches into the present, whether wars are ever over, and why a Georgian family in Germany longs for a homeland that was hell.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 763 pages in the original
- Genres
- War, Crime (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Germany, Russia
- First published
- 2018 by Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt
- Author's age
- 35 when first published
- ISBN
9783627002541 (original)
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