Disappearing Earth : a novel

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Label

Disappearing Earth : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Julia Phillips

Creator

• Phillips, Julia

Author

• Phillips, Julia

Subject

• Sisters -- Fiction
• Suspense fiction
• Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) -- Fiction
• Missing persons -- Fiction

Genre

• Suspense fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"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." --

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.6

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3616.H4585

LC item number

D57 2019

Literary form

fiction