But in Kamchatka, which has a population of 400,000, I was one of I believe 10 Americans there.
“In Moscow, for example, an American is not an unusual thing at all. The ending left me happy and sad, but with a kernel of hope that lingered for a long time.“I was extraordinarily lucky to be treated to so kindly and hospitably by everyone I met,” Phillips says. By the end, I was just figuring it out, but it's truly not about the solution: it is about the destination. Maybe the growing feeling that no matter how this story ended, it would never be perfect for everyone.Īnd through each of these stories, the clues build bit by bit as to who did it. Maybe the excellent character development. It’s hard to explain exactly what I loved so much about this book.
Revmira, as she reflects back on the tragic accident of her first husband. Natasha, whose sister Lilia disappeared years past, as she associates with her conspiracy theorist brother and her sad mother. The chapter of Lada, as her old best friend, and maybe-lover, Masha comes back from St. The story of Kyusha, a student from Esso, as she navigates a relationship with her past and a relationship with her present. The story of Olya’s alienation from her schoolfriend over class conflict. I felt as if, with all of these stories, I received such a strong view of different characters, such a clear picture of a whole intermingling environment. Each chapter of this mystery is a self-contained short story that adds something to the whole. With a population of 322,000, both ethnic Russian and Koryak, this region is a hotbed of social tensions. The region was isolated by military law from 1945 to 1990, and is surrounded on most sides by water, featuring only a slim border with Russia. The Russian peninsula of Kamchatka is, above all else, isolated. Disappearing Earth is a mystery around the kidnapping of two girls, but it’s primarily a book about connections: the ways in which one disappearance stands for something different to each, and the way in which the knowledge of said disappearance can connect people in different cities, from entirely different backgrounds.
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