Jiří Kratochvil is one of the best-known contemporary Czech prose writers and one of the most translated Czech authors. The original title of the novel is "Liška v dámu" (Fox into a Lady), published in Latvian with the author's consent under the title "Stalin's Fox or How the Fox Became a Lady".

The novel is a celebration of the imagination and of a literature that plays with words and scenes, but also offers a powerful story of the interconnectedness and yet incompatibility of different worlds, and highlights the importance of the fox and human freedom.

The novel won the Magnesia Litera, the main Czech literary prize, in 2020. The book was published with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. The novel was translated from the Czech by Jānis Krastiņš.