Disappearing Earth is a literary fiction book by author Julia Phillips.
The novel takes us to a new understanding of the complex relationship of family and community, in a Russia unlike anything we’ve seen before.
This suspenseful and haunting story announces the debut of a writer of profound talent.
One August afternoon, on the coast of the Kamchatka peninsula on the northeastern edge of Russia, two little girls – sisters, aged 8 and 11 – went missing. The police investigation was fruitless.
Taking us through a year in Kamchatka, Earth disappears into the world of a richly drawn cast of characters, all connected by crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective , A mother. We were transported to vistas of rugged beauty – densely wooded forests, open tundra, soaring volcanoes, and the glassy seas that border Japan and Alaska — and into an equally captivating complex, where social and ethnic tensions have long simmered, and where bystanders are often the first to be charged.
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Disappearing Earth
- A novel
