Disappearing Earth
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 255 pages : map ; 24 cm
"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.
Subjects:
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780525520412
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F Phillips | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
F Phillips | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
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F Phillips | Ballentine Indoors | Fiction | In |
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