Roman Senchin is a prose writer and winner of the Bolshaya Kniga and Yasnaya Polyana awards.

He is the author of the novels The Yeltyshevs, Flood Zone, and Rain in Paris, as well as numerous prose collections, including Stop, Russian Loan, and The Noughties.

The Tenths: Prose of Recent Times is a collection of novellas and short stories written from 2011 to 2020. They are nostalgic and prophetic, about love and loneliness, life and death, peace and anxiety. Simple stories, under the pen of Roman Senchin, take shape into a chronicle of life, transforming into a historical canvas.

'History is a staircase up or down, and every year is a step.

And steps are always different in some way; there are some on which you are sure to stumble, take your breath away.

There are ten steps in this book. A decade. My 2010s.' (Roman Senchin)