{"product_id":"9781804272329","title":"The Disappearing Act - Sasha Dugdale","description":"\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":"Sasha Dugdale","offers":[{"title":"136 pages \/ 26\/02\/2026 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":56970869997943,"sku":"9781804272329","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781804272329_943de73d-87f8-40d9-90c2-46a38b785ba9.jpg?v=1779383282","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781804272329","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}