{"product_id":"afs-disappearing-earth-a-novel-9780525520412","title":"Disappearing Earth: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOne of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e10 Best Books of the Year\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNational Book Award Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFinalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFinalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNational Best Seller\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Splendidly imagined . . . Thrilling\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e--Simon Winchester\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A genuine masterpiece\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e--Gary Shteyngart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSpellbinding, 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking us through a year in Kamchatka, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDisappearing Earth\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eenters 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43483688632526,"sku":"9780525520412","price":24.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/0883\/2974\/files\/9780525520412_a.png?v=1775727244","url":"https:\/\/www.bookxcess.com\/products\/afs-disappearing-earth-a-novel-9780525520412","provider":"BookXcess","version":"1.0","type":"link"}