Sukhbat Aflatuni prose writer, poet, translator; author of the novels “Great Fishes”, “Earth Paradise”, “Tashkent Novel”, “Adoration of the Magi”; laureate of the “Russian Prize”, finalist of the awards “Big Book”, “Clear Field”, “Russian Booker” . "Catechon" - a philosophically complex novel and at the same time - the love story of "two people who do not meet" He is Burned, or Farhad, a guide from Samarkand, she is Anna, a translator from Erfurt . From youth, the Burned Man is obsessed with the idea of finding the Catechon something that will delay the passage of time and postpone the end of the world. But what is the Catechon? State? Special garden? 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...