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Disappearing Earth a novel

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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, ei...

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Main Author: Phillips, Julia (Author)
Format: Downloads eBook Books eBook
Language:English
Published: 2019.
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Missing persons > Fiction.
Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) > Fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Electronic books.
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Summary: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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ISBN:9780525520429
Author Notes:JULIA PHILLIPS is a Fulbright Fellow whose writing has appeared in The New York Times , The Atlantic , The Moscow Times, and The Paris Review . She lives in Brooklyn.

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