About the book: 1988 / Two works by I. Shtemler are united by a common industrial theme, the genre of an urban business novel. The novel "Plant" ("An Ordinary Month") is dedicated to the life of the instrument-making team plant The novel “Department Store” is about people working in the service sector. The problems raised by the author in the novels are highly relevant. We are talking about depicting people with new economic and state thinking, about posing the problem of working honor, creative initiative.