{"product_id":"9781804272329-retail-the-disappearing-act","title":"The Disappearing Act","description":"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. 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.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49067108630747,"sku":"9781804272329-RETAIL","price":25.49,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/0203787d-80fe-443f-9b4a-ea95cbc13f18.jpg?v=1785942059","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781804272329-retail-the-disappearing-act","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}