What Big-Ben is silent about. Pisareva A.A.

His Majesty Office. Meetings, reports, tables. Muscovite moves to London to work in a huge company and looks in it with a white sheep. Sincerity, friendliness, openness are not accepted here: everyone pursues their goals. The heroine delays into this world, where manipulations and lies lead to career success-it is only necessary to accept its rules... Here even the Thames is changeable and absurd, and only the eternal Big Ben knows the truth.

Anastasia Pisareva by education-lawyer -Wath. She worked in large international and Russian companies in Russia, England, Spain. Graduate of the St. Petersburg branch of the literary workshop Creative Writing School. Her debut novel “What Big-Ben is silent about” is dedicated to the Kafkian absurdity of the modern corporate world that can absorb any living soul. Or... not any?

- our team should be better oriented, otherwise how will we conduct the process?

- What process?

is our monthly process, then what we must do.

- but there is no process.

- you are right, but when it will be...

- and he It will be?

A surprisingly lively, energetic, modern novel - European, but at the same time corresponding to “Best Russian Traditions”, when the author and the main character of the narrative are not looking for simple answers to difficult questions. The characters are sad, funny, ridiculous, happy, unhappy, cunning, simple -minded, angry. To one degree or another, they all try to manipulate each other. And at the same time find a common language. Formally - English; In fact, universal. In a word, the rare case when an exciting “office story” becomes genuine literature (Elena Chizhova).