{"product_id":"maria-stepanova-the-disappearing-act","title":"Maria Stepanova: The Disappearing Act","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFitzcarraldo Editions, 2026, softcover, 136 pages, 12.5 x 19.7 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Disappearing Act\u003c\/span\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","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57606224347520,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/81QkHqzisBL._SY522.jpg?v=1773759497","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/maria-stepanova-the-disappearing-act","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}