Disappearing Earth :
Author
Format:
Large print
Physical Description
415 pages (large print) : map ; 24 cm
Edition
First large print edition.
Production / Publication Information
[New York] : Random House Large Print, [2019]
Summary
The shattering disappearance of two young girls from Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula compounds the isolation and fears of a tight-woven community, connecting the lives of neighbors, witnesses, family members and a detective throughout an ensuing year of tension.
Call Number
LP/FIC/PHILLIPS
Publication Date
2019
Language
English
ISBN
9781984892225
Disappearing Earth :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
255 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
Summary
"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." --
Call Number
FIC/PHILLIPS
Publication Date
2019
Language
English
ISBN
9780525520412 9780525436225
by
Phillips, Julia
Format:
eBook
Electronic Format:
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Libby
by
Phillips, Julia
Format:
eAudiobook
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Libby
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