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About Disappearing Earth
Product Description ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTFinalist for The New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award 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. In a story as propulsive as it is emotionally engaging, Julia Phillips's 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. Review ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The Washington Post, Esquire, Chicago Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, NPR, Real Simple, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, The A. V. Club, The New York Public Library Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard PrizeFinalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeFinalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award “Superb. . . . Brilliant. . . . Phillips's deep examination of loss and longing . . . is a testament to the novel's power.” —The New York Times Book Review “Thrilling. . . . This mystery takes you to a scrappy ice-bound town in Russia's frozen north. Rumors and rivalries, secrets and lies, all add up to a compelling portrayal of a community under siege.” — People“Immensely moving.” —The Wall Street Journal “Mesmerizing. . . . It's the strength of Phillips's writing, her careful attention to character and tone, that will grip you right up until the final heart-stopping pages.” —Vanity Fair “A sophisticated and powerful literary thriller. . . . A knock-out.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “Elegant, ingeniously interwoven. . . . As a series of character studies, it’s brilliant. . . . But Phillips never stops tracing Disappearing Earth’s arc, tilting her tapestry toward a singularly satisfying ending.” —Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly “Invigoratingly hard to classify. . . . [Phillips] ingeniously dismantl[es] . . . convention[s] . . . . The ending of Disappearing Earth ignites an immediate desire to reread the chapters leading up to it.” — The New Yorker“An addictive page turner.” —Cosmopolitan “A miracle of structure, premise, and content, this ingenious debut spins out the narratives of twelve different women. . . . Reindeer herders, ballerinas, avalanches, volcanoes . . . Phillips’s luring writing will transform Kamchatka from a place you’ve never heard of to a place you never want to leave.” —The Rumpus “[Weaves] a net as taut and intricate as any thriller plot but rich in detail about relationships, historical scars, and the specific and universal trials of being a woman.” —Vulture “Stunning. . . . Beautifully delineated scenes. . . . The situations remain strange in their specificities and universal in their familiarity. . . . The mystery is worth reading until the very end.” —NPR “Absorbing and extraordinarily well crafted. . . . It is a many-stranded crime story. It is also a complex portrait of clashing cultures.” —The Boston Globe “Unshakeable . . . Disappearing Earth has the makings of a lurid thriller, but first-time novelist Julia Phillips does something more sophisticated than that. . . . It’s so specific, and yet so universal. These are stories of women the world over.” —USA Today “Riveting, deeply rewarding. . . . As each succeeding story of “Disappearing Earth” takes us another month away from hope that Sophia and Alyona will
