

Disappearing Earth
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One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka Peninsula at the northeastern tip of Russia, two girls—sisters, ages eight and eleven—go missing. The police investigation goes cold from the outset. In the girls’ tightly-woven community, everyone must grapple with the loss. But the fear and danger is felt most profoundly among the women of this isolated place. Taking us one chapter per month across a year on Kamchatka, this powerful novel connects the lives of characters changed by the sisters’ abduction: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mother. Theirs is an ethnically diverse population in which racial tensions simmer, and so-called natives are often the first to be accused. As the story radiates from the peninsula’s capital city to its rural north, we are brought to places of astonishing beauty: densely wooded forests, open expanses of tundra, soaring volcanoes, and glassy seas.
ISBN: 9780525520412
JLG Release: Aug 2019
Awards & Honors
2020 Carnegie Medal Longlist
2019 National Book Awards Finalist
2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Shortlist
Kirkus Best Books - 2019
LJ Best Books - 2019
NYPL Best Books - 2019
CPL Best Books - 2019
NPR’s Book Concierge - 2019
NYT Notable Books - 2019
2019 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee
2020 Young Lions Fiction Award Finalist
Praise & Reviews
Starred or favorable reviews have been received from these periodicals:
Publishers Weekly*, Kirkus Reviews*, Booklist*, Library Journal*, The New York Times
Book Details
ISBN
9780525520412
First Release
August 2019
Genre
Fiction
Dewey Classification
F
Trim Size
9 1/4" x 6 1/4"
Page Count
272
Accelerated Reader
N/AScholastic Reading Counts
N/ALexile
N/AFormat
Print Book
Edition
Hardcover edition
Publisher
Knopf (Adult)
Potentially Sensitive Areas
Discrimination: Racial Insensitivity/Racism, Violence: Sexual Assault/Rape, Language: Strong Language, Sexual Content: Strong Sexual Content/Themes
Topics
Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, Missing persons, Police investigations, Community, Indigenous cultures, Women,