The Disappearing Act
€19.00
Product Information
| ISBN | 9781804272329 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Stepanova |
| Publisher | Fitzcarraldo |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.190 |
| Publishing Date | 26/02/2026 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €17.92 |
| Tax | €1.08 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €19.00 |
| Availability | +20 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
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.