The writer known as M. is living in exile while her home country wages war on a neighbouring state. Wracked by shame and severed from her language, M. finds herself unable to write, unmoored in a present where the future feels unknowable. When she travels to a nearby country for an event, a twist of fate leaves her stranded in an unfamiliar city, phoneless and untraceable. In this rupture, she feels a flicker of liberation – the possibility of starting over – but memories of childhood, books, films and tarot cards pull her back, the last fragments of a vanishing world. Then she meets a troupe of circus performers who invite her to join them. For a moment, reinvention seems within reach. Oscillating between reality and dream, written in rich, hypnotic prose, The Disappearing Act is a haunting meditation on identity, language and the fragile desire to disappear by Maria Stepanova, one of Russia’s greatest living writers.
The Disappearing Act
£12.99
A haunting novel on identity, exile and the fragile desire to disappear by Maria Stepanova, one of Russia’s greatest living writers.
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| Dimensions | 19.7 × 12.5 cm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 128 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | Paperback original |
| Dewey | 891.735 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
