Disappearing Earth: A novel Audiobook (Free)

One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year

National Book Award Finalist

Finalist for the Country wide Book Critics Group John Leonard prize

Longlisted for the guts for Fiction First Book Prize

National Best Seller

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

‘Splendidly imagined . Exciting’ –Simon Winchester

‘A legitimate masterpiece’ –Gary Shteyngart

Spellbinding, moving–evoking a remarkable region on the other side of the world–this suspenseful and about Disappearing Earth: A novel haunting tale announces the debut of a profoundly gifted writer.

One August afternoon, for the shoreline from the Kamchatka peninsula in the northeastern advantage of Russia, two girls–sisters, eight and eleven–go missing. In the ensuing weeks, then months, the authorities investigation arises nothing. Echoes from the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its ladies.

Taking us through a 12 months in Kamchatka, Disappearing Earth enters with astonishing emotional acuity the worlds of a cast of richly drawn characters, all connected with the crime: a see, a neighbor, a detective, a mom. We are transported to vistas of durable beauty–densely wooded forests, open up expanses of tundra, soaring volcanoes, and the glassy seas that border Japan and Alaska–and right into a region as complex since it is normally alluring, where social and cultural tensions have long simmered, and where outsiders tend to be the first to be accused.

In a story as propulsive as it is emotionally participating, and through a writer’s virtuosic feat of empathy and imagination, this powerful novel provides us to a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community, within a Russia unlike any we have seen before.