Russian Russian writer Sukhbat Aflatuni is a novelist, poet, translator; author of the novels "Great Fishes", "Paradise on Earth", "Tashkent Novel", "Adoration of the Magi"; winner of the "Russian Prize", finalist of the awards "Big Book", "Yasnaya Polyana", "Russian Booker"."Catechon" is a philosophical complex novel and at the same time a love story of "two incompatible people." He is Burnt, or Farhad, a tour guide from Samarkand, she is Anna, a translator from Erfurt. Since his youth, the Burned Man has been obsessed with the idea of finding a Catechon — something that will delay the passage of time and delay the end of the world. But what is a Catechon? The state? A special garden? An artificial volcano?.. Or maybe Farhad himself?The place of action is Erfurt, Samarkand and Tashkent, Fulda and Naumburg. The mixing of times, the layering of epochs, today's days and the confrontation of two heroes ..."He began to forget her. He called her by other names. Once, in Batumi, he even asked me to come out.But the worst part was that she began to forget him herself. No, she remembered everything about him. His scent, his passport number, some of his thoughts… One thing she didn't remember was why he had to be with her. What happened in Samarkand, why he not only appeared nearby, but noisily flowed into it, like a Siab into the Black Sea. Although where is Siab, and where is her sea..."