Disappearing Earth: A Novel
Written by Julia Phillips
Narrated by Kadushin Ilyana
3.5/5
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Spellbinding, moving — evoking a fascinating region on the other side of the world — this suspenseful and haunting story announces the debut of a profoundly gifted writer.
One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two girls - sisters, eight and 11 — 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.
Editor's Note
Rural reverberations…
Author Julia Phillips focuses each chapter on the life of a different woman in the months after a pair of sisters vanish. Her language is unpretentious and, like the landscape she describes, sparsely beautiful. Her writing is cinematic. You can clearly picture the world she creates on the page — and the women who long to escape from it.
Julia Phillips
Julia Phillips lives in Brooklyn. Her debut novel, Disappearing Earth, will be publishedby Knopf in the US and Scribner in the UK, as well as publishers in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and China. Her Pushcart-nominated fiction appears in literary journals including Glimmer Train and The Antioch Review. Her nonfiction appears in such publications as The Atlantic, Slate, and BuzzFeed News, and was named notable in Best American Travel Writing. She spent a year as a Fulbright fellow in Russia's Kamchatka peninsula, where Disappearing Earth is set.
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Reviews for Disappearing Earth
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5As good as ever from Arron Meinke, loved it thanks
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Writing was great. The three stars reflect only my judgment that the subject wasn’t a good one for a road trip. My mistake. ?
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The end was so anti climatic. I wanted details! What a tease. Other than that, made me want to visit russia. Well written.