{"product_id":"the-disappearing-act","title":"The Disappearing Act","description":"\u003cp\u003eA haunting novel on identity, exile and the fragile desire to disappear by Maria Stepanova, one of Russia's greatest living writers. \u003c\/p\u003e\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. 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, The Disappearing Act 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","brand":"Gardners Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48384901152991,"sku":"9781804272329","price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9781804272329.jpg?v=1769063216","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.co.nz\/products\/the-disappearing-act","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}