Disappearing Earth

Resumen del libro

One of The New York Times10 Best Books of the Year

National Book Award Finalist
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize
Finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

A Best Book of 2019:Entertainment Weekly,The Washington Post, NPR,Kirkus, AV Club,Vanity Fair,Variety,Esquire, Jezebel, Real Simple,The New York Post,Town x{0026} Country,Barnes x{0026} Noble, Library Journal,CBC, BookPage,BookBub,Book Riot, USA Today

National Best Seller

"Splendidly imagined . . .

Thrilling" --Simon Winchester
"A genuine masterpiece" --Gary Shteyngart

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 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.

Biografía del autor

Julia Phillips (1989, New Jersey, Estados Unidos) se licenció en Letras en Barnard College, y cursó uno de los semestres de su licenciatura en Moscú. Posteriormente, recibió una beca Fulbright que le permitió trasladarse a la península de Kamchatka y documentarse para la escritura de su primera novela. Es profesora de Escritura Creativa en Randolph College y escribe en diferentes medios, entre ellos The New York Times, The Atlantic y The Paris Review. En 2019 publicó La desaparición, que resultó finalista del National Book Award, del National Book Critics Circle en la categoría de primera obra y del Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, entre otros premios. Ha sido traducida a más de una veintena de lenguas.