Disappearing Earth
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525520412
- ISBN: 0525520414
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Physical Description:
print
255 pages : map ; 24 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A Borzoi Book"--Title page verso. |
Summary, etc.: | "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." -- |
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Subject: | Missing persons Fiction Missing persons Investigation Fiction Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) Fiction |
Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) Novels. Suspense fiction. |
Available copies
- 52 of 54 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Woodbury Public Library.
Holds
- 3 current holds with 54 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Woodbury Public Library | FIC PHILLIPS (Text) | 34018143901926 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |