Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * A propulsive, emotionally engaging debut novel about the intricate bonds of family and community, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before."Superb.... Brilliant.... Phillips's deep examination of loss and longing ... is a testament to the novel's power." --The New York Times Book Review
One August afternoon, two sisters--Sophia, eight, and Alyona, eleven--go missing from a beach on the far-flung Kamchatka Peninsula in northeastern Russia. Taking us through the year that follows, Disappearing Earth enters the lives of women and girls in this tightly knit community who are connected by the crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mother. We are transported to vistas of rugged beauty--open expanses of tundra, soaring volcanoes, dense forests, 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.
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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| ISBN 13 | 9780525436225 |
| ISBN 10 | 0525436227 |
| Title | Disappearing Earth |
| Author | Julia Phillips |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2020-04-07 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for National Book Awards 2019, Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize 2019 |
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