Showing results for "Julia Phillips" in Literary Fiction

One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two girls - sisters, eight and 11 - 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.

An einem sonnigen Augusttag verschwinden an der Küste Kamtschatkas die Schwestern Sofija und Aljona spurlos. War es ein Badeunfall oder sind sie Opfer eines Verbrechens geworden? Wie eine düstere Wolke hängt der ungelöste Fall fortan über Kamtschatka und beeinflusst das Leben der unterschiedlichsten Frauen in einer gespaltenen, männerdominierten Gesellschaft.

A sweeping story of orphans and outcasts, haunted by the past and fighting to liberate themselves. At its centre is Monica Johnson, cut off from her parents after falling in love with a foreigner, and her bitter struggle to raise her sons in the shadow of the wild moors of the north of England. Intertwined with her modern narrative is the ragged childhood of Emily Brontë’s Heathcliff, the antihero of Wuthering Heights and one of literature’s most enigmatic lost boys.