November in Paris (Paperback)

Paperback. Some books are felt before they are written.The boy who once stole a Christmas tree to buy food for his family grew up - and now sits in a Paris therapist's office.A Saturday evening. Max walks along the Seine in a thin November rain. He has a daughter, a dog, business deals at the Ritz, and a quiet life he has rebuilt from scratch. And he has a therapist's office he keeps returning to - not to complain, but to finally face, honestly, what he kept locked away for years.A post-Soviet courtyard. A nine-storey block, a market on three sides. An eleven-year-old boy collects scrap paper, bargains with adults as if the whole world were one vast marketplace, and one day finds a bold, almost cinematic way to feed his family before the New Year. So begins a lifelong journey: foster families and other people's homes, a military academy, a huge city, falls and fresh starts - and Paris, which slowly turns from cold and foreign into the only place where everything is where it should be.This is a story about growing up between poverty and privilege - about the marks adulthood doesn't erase but learns to carry. About trauma and quiet healing. About a solitude that stops being emptiness and becomes a way of seeing more clearly. And about the strange signs and coincidences - a stranger with the face of an icon in a barber's chair, names, dates, chance encounters - that seem to lead a man from one turning point of fate to the next.There are no easy answers here, no loud motivational breakthroughs. There is honest, slow, atmospheric prose - Paris beyond the postcards, the city that breathes in the rain - and the quiet strength of a man who put himself back together. Based on a true story."November in Paris" is contemporary autofiction and psychological drama: a literary novel set in Paris, a story of childhood trauma and a post-Soviet upbringing, a novel about therapy, immigration and self-reinvention. For readers of reflective literary fiction about solitude, fate, signs and healing from the past. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…