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The Disappearing ACT
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $15.95
ISBN13: 9780811239400
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Feb 17 2026
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
The writer M has lived in the city of B ever since her homeland declared war on a neighboring state. Exiled, she is unable to write there and suffers from loneliness, shame, and despair, but then M is invited to give a reading at a literary festival in a nearby country. After a series of missed connections and mishaps, including losing her phone, she finds herself all alone in the wrong coastal town, befriending a local man and attending the circus...
In this brief interlude, severed from reality, it seems as if M may finally escape from herself, from her past, from her nationality. She could start all over from scratch and join the circus. Written in Maria Stepanova's rich and hypnotic prose, The Disappearing Act oscillates between reality and dream, between an oppressive present and a lost past, between life and literature.
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