Disappearing earth
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Status
Port Angeles - Fiction (Adult)
PHILLIP Juli
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PHILLIP Juli
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
255 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"A Borzoi Book"--Title page verso.
Description
"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." --,Provided by publisher.