The novel 'Flood Zone' enters into a dialogue with Valentin Rasputin's famous story 'Farewell to Matera': the inhabitants of ancient Siberian villages are hastily resettled to the city—the site of the Boguchanskaya Hydroelectric Power Station. The people of the 'zone'—among them hereditary peasants and those exiled during Stalin's times, who found a small homeland here—do not believe, protest, resign themselves, and rebel. Two worlds: the sinking Atlantis of popular life and the soulless machine of the new bureaucracy...

Roman Senchin is the author of the novels 'The Yeltyshevs,' 'Rain in Paris,' 'Information,' 'Minus,' and the short fiction collections 'Breakdown,' 'On the Back Staircase,' and 'Absolute Solo.' He is a winner of the 'Big Book' and 'Yasnaya Polyana' prizes, and a finalist for the 'Russian Booker' and 'National Bestseller' awards.