{"product_id":"book-cxnu","title":"Disappearing Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e10 Best Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNational Book Award Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eFinalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eNational Best Seller\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Splendidly imagined … Thrilling\"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e -Simon Winchester\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"A genuine masterpiece\"\u003cb\u003e -Gary Shteyngart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\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\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\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, \u003ci\u003eDisappearing Earth \u003c\/i\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.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49329412047152,"sku":"BDcxnu","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/cxnu-Square-cover.jpg?v=1779335808","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-cxnu","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}