Disappearing Earth
A novel
Fiction & Literature, Literary, Contemporary Women, Mystery & Suspense, Thrillers
| Author: | Julia Phillips | ISBN: | 9780525520429 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Publication: | May 14, 2019 |
| Imprint: | Knopf | Language: | English |
| Author: | Julia Phillips |
| ISBN: | 9780525520429 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Publication: | May 14, 2019 |
| Imprint: | Knopf |
| Language: | English |
"Splendidly imagined . . . Thrilling" --Simon Winchester
"A genuine masterpiece" **--Gary Shteyngart
Named a Best Book of 2019 So Far by Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, and USA Today
Long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
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.
"Splendidly imagined . . . Thrilling" --Simon Winchester
"A genuine masterpiece" **--Gary Shteyngart
Named a Best Book of 2019 So Far by Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, and USA Today
Long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
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.
