Marina Stepnova is the author of the acclaimed novel “The Women of Lazarus” (Big Book Award, shortlist for the Russian Booker, Yasnaya Polyana, and National Bestseller awards), the novels “The Surgeon” and “Godless Lane” . Her prose has been translated into twenty-three languages. The new book “Somewhere near Grosseto” is a collection of stories about people who are not usually noticed, and they themselves seem to do everything to remain invisible. In fact, their “little tragedies” and “great hopes” hide strong feelings: love, pain, loneliness, fear of death and joy of life. All that makes us human.