{"product_id":"stepanova-maria-the-disappearing-act","title":"Stepanova, Maria - The Disappearing Act","description":"A haunting novel on identity, exile and the fragile desire\nto disappear by Maria Stepanova, one of Russia's\ngreatest living writers.\nThe writer known as M. is living in exile while her home country wages war\non a neighbouring state. Wracked by shame and severed from her language,\nM. finds herself unable to write, unmoored in a present where the future feels\nunknowable. When she travels to a nearby country for an event, a twist of fate\nleaves her stranded in an unfamiliar city, phoneless and untraceable. In this\nrupture, she feels a flicker of liberation - the possibility of starting over - but\nmemories of childhood, books, films and tarot cards pull her back, the last\nfragments of a vanishing world. Then she meets a troupe of circus performers\nwho invite her to join them. For a moment, reinvention seems within reach.\nOscillating between reality and dream, written in rich, hypnotic prose,The\nDisappearing Actis a haunting meditation on identity, language and the fragile\ndesire to disappear by Maria Stepanova, one of Russia's greatest living writers.","brand":"Fitzcarraldo Editions","offers":[{"title":"Paperback Book","offer_id":50907756200214,"sku":"RMX-60004","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/0c4769a85dd5800c7ba50060f3294685.jpg?v=1767708605","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/stepanova-maria-the-disappearing-act","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}