Roman Senchin is a novelist, author of the novels 'The Yeltyshevs,' 'Flood Zone,' and collections of short fiction and journalism. He is a winner of the 'Big Book' and 'Yasnaya Polyana' awards, and a finalist for the 'Russian Booker' and 'National Bestseller' prizes.

The protagonist of the new novel 'Rain in Paris,' Andrei Topkin, finds himself in Paris, a city that he believes can rescue him from a streak of failures and personal turmoil. He rarely leaves his hotel room, indulging in reflection and replaying his life. He explores his youth in the 1990s, his first love, and, in general, everything for the first time in Kyzyl, the capital of Tuva. His parents and friends have already left the city, but this is his home, and he doesn't want to leave—first out of inertia, and then from a strange feeling: he must live here... And it's raining in Paris.