About the book: 2024 / Due to a strike on the railway, the writer M. makes an unplanned stop in a small European town. Following the canceled train, moving away from the well-trodden rails of fate and its historical scenery, the heroine’s life path begins to change. “Focus” is a new prose by Maria Stepanova, poet and essayist, author of the novel “In Memory of Memory” translated into more than 20 languages».