{"product_id":"the-disappearing-act-by-maria-stepanova-9781804272329","title":"The Disappearing Act","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThen 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, \u003cem\u003eThe Disappearing Act\u003c\/em\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\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47496563589356,"sku":"9781804272329","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781804272329-the-disappearing-act.jpg?v=1775799040","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-disappearing-act-by-maria-stepanova-9781804272329","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}