About the book: 1997 / The story "Cat and Mouse" is about a man crippled morally, and then destroyed by Nazi false morality and war. In the center of the plot the novel “Under Local Anesthesia” - the fate of high school student Scherbaum. “From the Diary of a Snail” is a journalistic account of the election tour that took place on March 5, 1969, when Social Democrat Gustav Heinemann was elected President of the Federal Republic of Germany.