Roman Senchin is a prose writer, author of the novels “The Eltyshevs”, “The Flood Zone”, “Rain in Paris”, collections of short prose and journalism. Winner of the Big Book and Yasnaya Polyana awards, finalist of the Russian Booker and National Bestseller.

"The theme of this book is change. A teenage, rebellious theme that again seduces people in middle age who Having achieved recognition, status, family status, entrenched in home and habits, they feel a craving for zeroing out and restarting life. Never before have I recognized myself so readily in Senchin’s heroes. And although the new Senchin betrays our trust more than once, we feel only gratitude. "After all, the book so convincingly shows how painful it is to live, staring at one point of view." (Valeria Pustovaya)

"—Listen, maybe write a story about a person who always reads all sorts of crap, watches videos. He suffers, but can’t get unstuck...Huh? And call it “Stuck.”— How? In a jam? You'll get it for such a name, it'll be changed right away. - To what? - Guess. "Roman Senchin