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008			180702s2019 nyub 000 1 eng
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020			_a9780525520412 _qhardcover
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050		4	_aPS3616 .H4585 _bP455 2019
100	1		_aPhillips, Julia,
245	1	0	_aDisappearing Earth / _cJulia Phillips.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _c2019.
300			_a255 pages : _bmap ; _c25 cm.
520			_a"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." -- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aMissing persons _vFiction.
650		0	_aMissing children _vFiction.
651		0	_aKamchatka Peninsula (Russia) _vFiction.
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