Description: DISAPPEARING EARTH By Julia Phillips An Great Gift Idea ! - for a friend - or just for yourself ! Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 2019. Hardcover. SIGNED! SIGNED! SIGNED! Beautiful, Brand New! Stated First Edition, First Printing! Signed in Person by Julia Phillips directly on the full title page. (NOT signed to anyone)(NOT PRE-SIGNED ON BLANK PUBLISHER'S TIPPED-IN PAGE!!!) BONUS: Photos of Julia Phillips at her signing event will be included with the signed book! Book is Brand New and Unread. Opened only to be signed. No marks, no inscriptions. Dust jacket is Brand New, NOT price-clipped, in a removable protective mylar cover. A Must Have For Any Julia Phillips Fan !! ~ A BEAUTIFUL AUTOGRAPHED FIRST EDITION/FIRST PRINTING FOR COLLECTORS ~ "Splendidly imagined . . . Thrilling" --Simon Winchester"A genuine masterpiece" --Gary Shteyngart One of Entertainment Weekly's 10 Best Book of 2019 So Far Spellbinding, 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. 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.Reviews“A superb debut—brilliant. Daring, nearly flawless. A crime jump-starts Disappearing Earth; the novel exposes the ways in which the women of Kamchatka are fragmented not only by [a] kidnapping, but by place [and] identity . . . Phillips describes the region with a cartographer’s precision and an ethnographer’s clarity, drawing an emblematic cast: a reindeer herder’s daughter at university in the capital; a policeman’s wife; the white mother of the missing sisters; a Native woman whose teenage daughter also disappeared. As the novel progresses, the links between [the] women coil tighter in surprising and troubling ways. There will be those eager to designate Disappearing Earth a thriller by focusing on the whodunit rather than what the tragedy reveals about the women in and around it. Phillips’ deep examination of loss and longing is a testament to the novel’s power.” —Ivy Pochoda, The New York Times Book Review “Engrossing: an auspicious debut novel, a literary whodunit set in a distinctly foreign land. Phillips immerses readers in Kamchatka—it’s in the rich, humane characterizations; the plot’s gentle surprises; the reminders of the past; the rendering of the landscape. Rarely has a novel so fully brought to life a place most couldn’t pretend to know. The kidnapping of two sisters reaches far and wide: for the women who occupy the center of the novel, a sense of loss seeps to the surface, their stories propelled by emotional experiences that are brightly realized on the page. Phillips plots with methodical flair; the depth of her storytelling prowess reveals itself . . . Disappearing Earth wades through darkness with heart.” —David Canfield, Entertainment Weekly “Stunning . . . Phillips lets her experience [in Kamchatka] shimmer lightly in details [of] beautifully delineated scenes—situations strange in their specificities and universal in their familiarity. The mystery is worth reading until the very end.” —Bethanne Patrick, NPR “An addictive page-turner about the search for two missing girls. Phillips’s writing draws you in: Disappearing Earth is everything you could want from a book and more—a fast-paced yet thoughtful thriller full of human emotion and endurance." —Mehera Bonner, Cosmopolitan “Invigoratingly hard to classify . . . A dead or missing girl is such a common device in crime fiction that its use now prompts raised eyebrows. But Julia Phillips ingeniously dismantles conventions. [Set] in a volcano-studded peninsula in Russia, this novel builds a portrait of a place, as the disappearance of two sisters shapes and is refracted through the lives of women. As remote as this world is, readers will find it strangely familiar. Phillips’s characters fight to steer a course between the twin hazards of loss and captivity. Young mothers chafe at the confinement of family responsibilities, craving risks their older counterparts dread. For Phillips, the intricate web linking her characters—bonds that can suffocate, sustain, or expose—is not a mystery to be uncovered by a solitary detective. The ending of Disappearing Earth ignites an immediate desire to reread the chapters leading up to it . . . What appear to be fragments, the remains of assorted personal disasters and the detritus of a lost empire, is in truth capable of unity.” —Laura Miller, The New Yorker About the AuthorJULIA PHILLIPS is a Fulbright fellow whose writing has appeared in Glimmer Train, The Atlantic, Slate, and The Moscow Times. She lives in Brooklyn. ** We have several signed copies of this book. The signature in the book you receive may vary slightly from the one pictured in this listing. ** Please Check out my other items! **** FREE PRIORITY MAIL SHIPPING TO U.S. RESIDENTS **** Shipping & Handling: Standard shipping to U.S. buyers is via USPS Priority Mail (Estimated delivery time according to USPS is about 2-5 business days). 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