Somewhere near Grosso

Marina Stepnova is a laureate of the “Big Book” award, author of the novels “Garden”, “Women of Lazarus”, “Surgeon” and “Brivost Lane”. Her prose was translated into 25 languages.
In the collection “Somewhere near Grosseso”-stories about people who are not customary to notice, and they themselves seem to try their best to remain invisible. But their “little tragedies” and “big hopes” hide strong feelings: love, pain, loneliness, fear of death and the joy of life. Everything that makes us people.
“She suddenly sat on the bed, dropping her hands, and quietly, desperately asked - do not leave, Sanya. I will disappear without you. And damn, Kopotov was scrapped for a solid common corridor for a whole night, almost crying from pity and doubt, doubting. Maybe really not to go? And the dog with her, with this Germany, history, dissertation. The main thing is together. Together is still easier. By morning, everything was decided-in an adult way, seriously. Flatly