A literary novel by Mobarez Javanmard
Public Silence is a restrained psychological novel set inside modern institutional environments shaped by repetition, optimization, and behavioral adaptation.
Set in Vancouver during a quiet winter, the novel follows a man working within increasingly frictionless corporate systems where language becomes softer, reactions become smaller, and human presence gradually shifts from expression toward maintenance.
No major catastrophe occurs.
Meetings continue.
Notifications continue.
Transit systems continue.
The city continues functioning normally.
As routines become more efficient and emotional excess gradually disappears from daily interaction, the narrator begins noticing small unresolved traces that resist complete integration: damaged surfaces, repeated gestures, obsolete objects, and fragments of behavior with no measurable value.
Rather than presenting a conventional dystopia, Public Silence explores the subtle normalization of self-regulation, the reduction of interpersonal friction, and the quiet transformation of people into smoother versions of themselves.
Written with minimalism and controlled tension, the novel avoids dramatic collapse in favor of accumulation, atmosphere, and psychological residue.
Public Silence is currently in development.
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