{"product_id":"9781471195716-secondhand-disappearing-earth","title":"Disappearing Earth","description":"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.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48991477170395,"sku":"9781471195716-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/0639ec33-1f82-4410-9b02-a3926e3e830d.jpg?v=1784506919","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781471195716-secondhand-disappearing-earth","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}