The disappearing act
Stepanova, Marii︠a︡2026
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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.
Main title:
The disappearing act / Maria Stepanova ; translated by Sasha Dugdale.
Author:
Stepanova, Marii︠a︡, authorDugdale, Sasha, translator
Imprint:
London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2026.
Collation:
128 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Russian.
ISBN:
9781804272329 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
891.735
Language:
EnglishRussian
Subject:
BRN:
9053442