The Disappearing Act - Maria Stepanova peculiar moment also puts them

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

she gazes with love at her friends

First assembled from scattered oral poems in the early fourteenth century

an interlinked chronicle of modernity in all its splendour and squalor

accompanied by his squire

The Disappearing Act - Maria Stepanova peculiar moment also puts themThe 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