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One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the YearA Best Book of 2019: Entertainment Weekly The Washington Post NPR Kirkus AV ClubNational Book Award FinalistFinalistOne of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the YearA Best Book of 2019: Entertainment Weekly The Washington Post NPR Kirkus AV ClubNational Book Award FinalistFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard prizeLonglisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize National Best SellerSplendidly imagined . . . Thrilling--Simon WinchesterA genuine masterpiece --Gary Shteyngart 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.(less)