For the first time in Russian - one of the best examples of the late work of the outstanding British writer, a recognized master of subtle psychologism. The novel “Henry and Cato” tells the story of two prodigal sons: the art critic Henry Marshallson, having returned to England from many years of American “exile”, inherited the family estate after the death of his brother, a famous racing driver; and his old friend Pastor Cato Forbes is trying to cope with two differently reprehensible passions - for a God whose existence he is not sure of, and for a juvenile delinquent for whom all may not be lost. Can new love serve as a saving force in their closed world - or will it again come down to obsession, blackmail and violence? (back cover) Iris Murdoch is one of the most significant writers of her generation. The Guardian

“Henry and Cato" is perhaps the best of Murdoch's novels and certainly the most outstanding achievement in English literature of recent years. Joyce Carol Oates

It is difficult for us “from the distant east” to imagine what the highest circles of London can think, feel , talk, fall in love somehow differently than described in Murdoch’s classic novels. A magical city within a city, no larger than a flower bud, which has absorbed all the power, all the sweetness, all the nectar of life. Here mutual observation, delicacy, and jealousy are so heightened that they begin to replace love. Here, to visit, it is often enough to drive to the other side of the square. Here the ladies are transparent, tender and defenseless, like a shellless snail. Here live eccentrics - hybrids of characters from Chekhov and Lewis Carroll, half-insects and half-gods. In the coziest of worlds, these princesses and princes and the pea feel like guests, immigrants, refugees without family or tribe... Invisible forces stand guard day and night over the old world, protecting it from barbaric raids - from without and from within... And in aristocratic families from generation to generation generation, like gout, a hereditary disease is transmitted - a weakness for Bolshevism. Ozon.ru