{"product_id":"the-disappearing-act-by-maria-stepanova","title":"The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom New Directions Publishing Corporation:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text-xl leading-tight\"\u003eTranslated by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ndbooks.com\/author\/sasha-dugdale\/\" class=\"color-inherit delimit dim no-underline\"\u003eSasha Dugdale\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"my-8 prose lg:prose-xl max-w-none\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe writer M has lived in the city of B ever since her homeland declared war on a neighboring state. While in exile, she is unable to write and suffers from loneliness, shame, and despair. But then M is invited to give a reading at a literary festival in a nearby country, and after a series of missed connections and mishaps, including losing her phone, she finds herself all alone in the wrong coastal town. 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 …\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this brief interlude, severed from reality, it seems as if M may finally escape from herself, from her past, from her nationality. Written in rich and hypnotic prose,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Disappearing Act\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eoscillates between reality and dream, between an oppressive present and a lost past, between life and literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e","brand":"Dotters Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53900748259621,"sku":"9780811239400","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2167\/5269\/files\/ScreenShot2026-09-25at11.23.25AM.png?v=1790353440","url":"https:\/\/dottersbooks.com\/products\/the-disappearing-act-by-maria-stepanova","provider":"Dotters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}