One of The New York Instances 10 Ideal Books of the entire year

National Book Award Finalist

Finalist for the Country wide Book Critics Circle John Leonard award

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

National Best Seller

A Best Publication of 2019: The Washington Post, NPR, Kirkus

‘Splendidly imagined . Fascinating’ –Simon Winchester

‘A genuine masterpiece’ –Gary Shteyngart

Spellbinding, moving–evoking a remarkable region on the far side of the world–this suspenseful and on the subject of Disappearing Globe: A book haunting story announces the debut of a profoundly gifted article writer.

One August afternoon, over the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern advantage of Russia, two girls–sisters, eight and eleven–go missing. In the ensuing weeks, after that months, the police investigation arises nothing. Echoes from the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss experienced most deeply among its females.

Taking us through a yr in Kamchatka, Disappearing Earth enters with amazing emotional acuity the worlds of a cast of richly attracted characters, all connected by the crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mom. We are carried 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 cultural and ethnic tensions have lengthy simmered, and where outsiders are often the first to be accused.

In a tale as propulsive as it is emotionally interesting, and through a young writer’s virtuosic feat of empathy and imagination, this powerful novel brings us to a fresh knowledge of the intricate bonds of family and community, in a Russia unlike any we’ve seen before.