Roman Senchin is a prose writer, author of the novels “The Eltyshevs”, “The Flood Zone”, collections of short prose and journalism. Winner of the Big Book and Yasnaya Polyana awards, finalist of the Russian Booker and National Bestseller. The main character of the new novel Rain in Paris, Andrei Topkin, finds himself in Paris, a city that he thinks can snatch him away after a streak of failures and personal upheavals, he almost never leaves the hotel and indulges in reflection, replaying his life in his memory. Youth in the nineties, first love and, in general, everything for the first time in the capital of Tuva, Kyzyl. His parents and friends have already left the city, but this is his home, he doesn’t want to leave - first out of inertia, and then from a strange feeling: he should live here... And it’s raining in Paris.