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."