{"product_id":"disappearing-earth","title":"Disappearing Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBeautifully written, thought-provoking, intense and cleverly wrought, this is the most extraordinary first novel from a mesmerising new talent.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the north-eastern edge of Russia, two sisters are abducted. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Set on the remote Siberian peninsula of Kamchatka, \u003ci\u003eDisappearing Earth \u003c\/i\u003edraws us into the world of an astonishing cast of characters, all connected by an unfathomable crime. 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 provides a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eDisappearing Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'A genuine masterpiece, but one that is easily consumed in a feverish stay-up-all-night bout of reading pleasure.' \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGary Shteyngart\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Suspenseful, original and compelling,  Disappearing Earth is a strange and haunting voyage into a strange and haunting world.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimon Sebag-Montefiore\u003c\/b\u003e, author of The Romanovs \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Julia Phillips is at once a careful cartographer and gorgeous storyteller... . A mystery of two missing girls burns at the center of this astonishing debut, and the complexity of ethnicity, gender, hearth and kin illuminates this question and many more.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTayari Jones\u003c\/b\u003e, author of An American Marriage \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'A most extraordinarily beautiful and haunting first novel, and the unveiling of a rare and special talent' \u003cb\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'A knock-out... .The stitches of Phillips's language make you go, \u003ci\u003eDamn, that's good\u003c\/i\u003e.'\u003cb\u003e   \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'A superb debut.' \u003cb\u003eNew York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e '\u003c\/b\u003ePhillips explores the devastation in this complex, imaginative and beautifully written crime novel, which is as beautiful as the scenery it depicts.' \u003cb\u003eWoman's Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'I was so absorbed I forgot to take notes...each new domestic world was deftly conjured and fresh.' \u003cb\u003eSarah Moss, The Guardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'This book takes the 'missing girl' trope and turns it on its head' \u003cb\u003eElle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Intriguing, tantalising, perfectly executed.' \u003cb\u003eSpectator\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":53850100072786,"sku":"9781471169526","price":12.7,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_61537479-9abf-4abf-9b01-2b94fcef5caa.jpg?v=1782525762","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/disappearing-earth","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}