Flood Zone

Roman Senchin is the author of the novels "Yeltyshevys", "Rain in Paris", "Information", "Minus", and the collections of short prose "Failure", "On the Black Stairs", "Absolute Solo". He is a laureate of the "Big Book" and "Yasnaya Polyana" awards, and a finalist for the "Russian Booker" and "National Bestseller" awards.
The novel "Flood Zone" engages in a dialogue with the well-known novella by Valentin Rasputin "Farewell to Matyora": residents of ancient Siberian villages are hastily relocated to the city - this place will become the Boguchanskaya Hydroelectric Power Station. The people of the "zone" - among them are hereditary peasants and those exiled during Stalin's times who found a small homeland here - do not believe, protest, come to terms, and rebel. Two worlds: the Atlantis of folk life going underwater and the soulless machine of new bureaucracy…
The collision of worlds also occurs in Senchin's novella "Stripe". Alexey Shulin - the former head of the airport, now also a cashier, dispatcher, and guard - safeguards the runway of the settlement Temporary. He struggles against the protests of the locals. It seems he does this simply "for order", not hoping that it will be needed someday. Until a Tu-154 airplane makes an emergency landing