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  • Book cover for The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale. The design shows a colorful circus tent with red, green, and blue stripes at the top of a black-and-white striped pathway that narrows into the distance. The title appears in blue handwritten script, with “A Novel” in green, and the author’s name in orange cursive at the bottom on a beige background.
    Book cover for The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale. The design shows a colorful circus tent with red, green, and blue stripes at the top of a black-and-white striped pathway that narrows into the distance. The title appears in blue handwritten script, with “A Novel” in green, and the author’s name in orange cursive at the bottom on a beige background.
    March 04, 2026

    Read an Excerpt from THE DISAPPEARING ACT by Maria Stepanova (translated by Sasha Dugdale)

    Exile and reinvention take centre-stage in The Disappearing Act (Book*hug Press), a spare and searching novel by Maria Stepanova, the acclaimed author of In Memory of Memory. The story follows a writer ...

  • Excerpt from Holy Winter by Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale banner. Background image of textured glowing area of white shades in the midst of black, solid area of grey to the left with text and Open Book logo overlaid, and image of book cover to centre right.
    Excerpt from Holy Winter by Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale banner. Background image of textured glowing area of white shades in the midst of black, solid area of grey to the left with text and Open Book logo overlaid, and image of book cover to centre right.
    June 10, 2024

    Read an Excerpt from Holy Winter by Maria Stepanova, Translated by Sasha Dugdale

    A powerful and influential figure in Russia's cosmopolitan literary scene, Maria Stepanova watched this world torn away by Putin, and by the suppression and civil liberties violations that followed. In Holy ...

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