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EPISODE · May 14, 2019 · 10 MIN

Disappearing Earth: A novel by Julia Phillips

from Listen to Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary Women · host Teresa Cormier

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/351101 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Disappearing Earth: A novel Author: Julia Phillips Narrator: Ilyana Kadushin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 16 minutes Release date: May 14, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.38 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 3.4 of Total 5 Genres: Suspense Publisher's Summary: One of The New York Times 10 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 Finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award  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.

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