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Elena Chizhova - prozaik, avtor mnogikh knig, sredi kotorykh 'Vremi͡a zhenshchin' (premii͡a 'Russkiĭ Buker'), 'Gorod, napisannyĭ po pami͡ati', 'Terrakotovai͡a starukha', 'Orest i syn', 'Kitaist'. 'Povelitelʹ veshcheĭ' - novyĭ roman.Sankt-Peterburg, mart 201… goda. Anna, byvshai͡a shkolʹnai͡a uchitelʹnit͡sa, nadeetsi͡a, chto vsled za kardinalʹnymi peremenami v strane izmenitsi͡a i ee sobstvennai͡a zhiznʹ. Malenʹkiĭ mir, v kotorom, pomimo Anny, zhivut ee domashnie: matʹ, vladelit͡sa bogatoĭ kollekt͡sii antikvariata, i syn, nachinai͡ushchiĭ geĭm-dizaĭner, sozdai͡ushchiĭ Velikui͡u Igru, - deĭstvitelʹno izmenitsi͡a. No prichinoĭ tomu stanet strashnai͡a pravda o proshlom.'Davno, on eshche uchilsi͡a v shkole, oni shli iz kompʹi͡uternogo magazina, i matʹ ni s togo ni s sego vzi͡alasʹ promyvatʹ emu mozgi. Govorila pro druzhbu i chto druzeĭ nado iskatʹ sredi odnoklassnikov. On otvetil, chto ne ponimaet, pochemu dolzhen ogranichivatʹ sebi͡a ėtim, v sushchnosti, sluchaĭnym mnozhestvom, vmesto togo chtoby iskatʹ v ogromnom, voistinu bezgranichnom: v Seti'.

Elena Chizhova is a novelist, author of many books, including "The Time of Women" (the Russian Booker Prize), "A City Written from Memory", "The Terracotta Old Woman", "Orestes and Son", "The Sinologist". "The Lord of Things" is a new novel.St. Petersburg, March 201... of the year. Anna, a former schoolteacher, hopes that following the drastic changes in the country, her own life will also change. The small world in which, in addition to Anna, her family live: her mother, the owner of a rich collection of antiques, and her son, an aspiring game designer who creates a Great Game, will really change. But the reason for this will be the terrible truth about the past.'A long time ago, he was still in school, they were coming from a computer store, and his mother, for no reason, undertook to brainwash him. She talked about friendship and that friends should be looked for among classmates. He replied that he did not understand why he should limit himself to this, in essence, random set, instead of searching in the vast, truly limitless: the Web."