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Disappearing Earth

Julia Phillips

Disappearing Earth

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Disappearing Earth won the National Book Award Finalist and was an International Bestseller. 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.

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Publisher
Knopf
Year
2019
ISBN-13
9780525436225
Genre
Crime & ThrillerFiction
Topics
Disappearance and lossFamily and community bondsSocial and ethnic tension

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