Disappearing Earth Paperback / softback
by JULIA PHILLIPS
Paperback / softback
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Spellbinding, moving-evoking a fascinating region on the other side of the world-this suspenseful and haunting story announces the debut of a profoundly gifted writer. One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two girls-sisters, eight and eleven-go missing.
In the ensuing weeks, then months, the police investigation turns up nothing.
Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. Taking us through a year in Kamchatka, Disappearing Earth enters with astonishing emotional acuity the worlds of a cast of richly drawn characters, all connected by the crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mother.
We are transported to vistas of rugged beauty-densely wooded forests, open expanses of tundra, soaring volcanoes, and the glassy seas that border Japan and Alaska-and into a region as complex as it is alluring, where social and ethnic tensions have long simmered, and where outsiders are often the first to be accused. In a story as propulsive as it is emotionally engaging, and through a young writer's virtuosic feat of empathy and imagination, this powerful novel brings us to a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before.
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- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Publication Date:01/08/2020
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- ISBN:9781471195716
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Publication Date:01/08/2020
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- ISBN:9781471195716