When the aging Leader's paranoia becomes the absolute law of the land, can a final, secret plot bring down the empire of fear he built?

Aka Morchiladze’s RODZINA, or the Spying during the Latter Days (როძინა, ანუ ჯაშუშობა ბოლო ჟამისა) transports readers to the suffocating twilight of a terrifying era. It is a time when the "Motherland" has morphed into a realm of shadows, dismissed by the aging Leader—Stalin—as merely a "small territory in the south." Written in the evocative voice of a forgotten chronicler, the novel dissects the final days of the solitary dictator, whose glory spans continents but whose soul is consumed by dread. As he plots to expand his dominion of "Rodzina," a desperate conspiracy unfolds within the inner circle. Amidst the degradation of his former comrades, the only way to end the legalized paranoia of the empire lies in a secret weapon and the hands of those willing to strike the final blow.