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Disappearing Earth: a novel

✍ Scribed by Julia Phillips

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; Alfred A. Knopf
Year: 2019
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 253 KB
Category: Fiction
City: Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia), Russia (Federation)--Kamchatka Peninsula.
ISBN: 0525520422

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✦ Synopsis

**"Splendidly imagined . . . Thrilling" --Simon Winchester

"A genuine masterpiece" --Gary Shteyngart
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...

✦ Subjects

Russia (Federation) -- Kamchatka Peninsula

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