{"product_id":"november-in-paris-dimitri-sych-9798276552019","title":"November in Paris: A Novel About Trauma, Growing Up, and Inner Freedom","description":"\u003cp\u003eSome books are felt before they are written.\u003cbr\u003eThe boy who once stole a Christmas tree to buy food for his family grew up - and now sits in a Paris therapist's office.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dimitri Sych\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798276552019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/28\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d","brand":"Dimitri Sych","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49170955829503,"sku":"9798276552019","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/november-in-paris-dimitri-sych-9798276552019","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}