Disappearing Earth Disappearing Earth

Disappearing Earth

A novel

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Publisher Description

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A propulsive, emotionally engaging debut novel about the intricate bonds of family and community, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before.

“Superb.... Brilliant.... Phillips's deep examination of loss and longing ... is a testament to the novel's power.” —The New York Times Book Review

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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2019
May 14
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
272
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
4.1
MB

Customer Reviews

58 Pistol ,

Not the ending I wanted

No spoilers. Excellent book all but how the author decided to end it.

Kathytc ,

Best I've read in a long while...

I'll be remembering this beautifully written story. The chapters, titled as months, could easily stand alone as short stories. Together, they weave together to form a most excellent book. I'll be looking for more from this author.

MaddieLynnnn ,

Anticlimactic

I struggled to finish this book. The whole time I was flipping back to the list of characters which didn't bother me much but on top of that, the story was just boring. I thought maybe there would be a crazy twist at the end or something but it just kind of ended without much of an explanation. It was just depressing and felt like a waste of time/money.

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