Roman Senchin has a rare gift of storytelling. The book “On the Black Staircase” is a series of simple stories, a kind of chronicle of “the lives of unremarkable people” that form the philosophy of a generation. The young man, having spent all his money in a nightclub, goes to work... sweeping the streets; young spouses, dreaming of an interesting, beautiful life, spend all their free time in front of the TV; the hero of the story “On the Back Staircase” “is proud of his house, otherwise he would have to hate it”...