The Vanishing Act
Text Publishing, $23.95 pb, 240 pp, 9781921758195
Fiction
The Vanishing Act by Mette Jakobsen
by Christine Piper •
The début novel from Danish-born, Australia-based author Mette Jakobsen resembles a riddle: a tiny island in the middle of the ocean battered by wind, snow, and rain, sometime after the war; three men, a girl, a dog, a dead boy, a missing woman.
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