{"product_id":"the-disappearing-act","title":"The Disappearing Act","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Disappearing Act\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a haunting meditation on identity, language and the fragile desire to disappear by Maria Stepanova, one of Russia’s greatest living writers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished: 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePages: 136\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN 10: 1804272329\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN 13: 9781804272329\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maria Stepanova","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52706324087050,"sku":null,"price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9781804272329.jpg?v=1773394361","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/the-disappearing-act","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}