
Disappearing Earth
Julia Phillips
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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Knopf
- Year
- 2019
- ISBN-13
- 9780525436225
- Genre
- Crime & ThrillerFiction
- Topics
- Disappearance and lossFamily and community bondsSocial and ethnic tension
Awards
- National Book Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(2019)
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