{"product_id":"disappearing-earth-9780525436225","title":"Disappearing Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003eINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - A propulsive, emotionally engaging debut novel about the intricate bonds of family and community, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Superb.... Brilliant.... Phillips's deep examination of loss and longing ... is a testament to the novel's power.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne August afternoon, two sisters--Sophia, eight, and Alyona, eleven--go missing from a beach on the far-flung Kamchatka Peninsula in northeastern Russia. Taking us through the year that follows, \u003ci\u003eDisappearing Earth\u003c\/i\u003e enters the lives of women and girls in this tightly knit community who are connected by the crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mother. We are transported to vistas of rugged beauty--open expanses of tundra, soaring volcanoes, dense forests, 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJULIA PHILLIPS is a Fulbright Fellow whose writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Moscow Times, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Brooklyn.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50616713871634,"sku":"9780525436225","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ff531e4b-663d-47ad-aacc-e08b28effde2.jpg?v=1732509962","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/disappearing-earth-9780525436225","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}