The Disappearing Act - Maria Stepanova he reveals his life story:

he reveals his life story: his impoverished childhood

First assembled from scattered oral poems in the early fourteenth century

When complications arise in Alina’s pregnancy and Laura becomes attached to her neighbour’s son

peculiar moment also puts them at odds with the inhabitants of this watery universe

The Disappearing Act - Maria Stepanova he reveals his life story: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. Oscillating between reality and dream, written in rich, hypnotic prose, The