The Disappearing Act - Maria Stepanova an interlinked chronicle of modernity

an interlinked chronicle of modernity in all its splendour and squalor

Original Language: Czech

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

Yet in that harsh

The Disappearing Act - Maria Stepanova an interlinked chronicle of modernityThe 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