Julia Phillips

Beautifully written, thought-provoking, intense and cleverly wrought, this is the most extraordinary first novel from a mesmerising new talent. One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the north-eastern edge of Russia, two sisters are abducted. 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. Set on the remote Siberian peninsula of Kamchatka, Disappearing Earth draws us into the world of an astonishing cast of characters, all connected by an unfathomable crime. 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. In a story as propulsive as it is emotionally engaging, and through a young writer's virtuosic feat of empathy and imagination, this powerful novel provides a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before. Praise for Disappearing Earth "A genuine masterpiece, but one that is easily consumed in a feverish stay-up-all-night bout of reading pleasure." Gary Shteyngart “Suspenseful, original and compelling, Disappearing Earth is a strange and haunting voyage into a strange and haunting world.' Simon Sebag-Montefiore, author of The Romanovs “Julia Phillips is at once a careful cartographer and gorgeous storyteller... . A mystery of two missing girls burns at the center of this astonishing debut, and the complexity of ethnicity, gender, hearth and kin illuminates this question and many more.” Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage 'A knock-out... .The stitches of Phillips’s language make you go, Damn, that’s good.' The Los Angeles Review of Books 'A superb debut.' New York Times

Disappearing Earth

A mesmerizing novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unexpected visitor—a tale of family, obsession, and a mysterious creature in the woods, by the celebrated, bestselling author of Disappearing Earth. They were sisters and they would last past the end of time. Sam and her sister, Elena, dream of another life. On the island off the coast of Washington where they were born and raised, they and their mother struggle to survive. Sam works long days on the ferry that delivers wealthy mainlanders to their vacation homes while Elena bartends at the local golf club, but even together they can't earn enough to get by, stirring their frustration about the limits that shape their existence. Then one night on the boat, Sam spots a bear swimming the dark waters of the channel. Where is it going? What does it want? When the bear turns up by their home, Sam, terrified, is more convinced than ever that it's time to leave the island. But Elena responds differently to the massive beast. Enchanted by its presence, she throws into doubt the plan to escape and puts their long-held dream in danger. A story about the bonds of sisterhood and the mysteries of the animals that live among us—and within us—Bear is a propulsive, mythical, rich novel from one of the most acclaimed young writers in America.

A Novel

Bear

Julia Phillips became a Hollywood player in the freewheeling 1970s, the first woman to win the Best Picture Oscar as co-producer of The Sting. She went on to work with two of the hottest young directorial talents of the era: Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver) and Steven Spielberg (Close Encounters of the Third Kind). Phillips blazed a trail as one of the very few females to break into the upper echelons of a notoriously chauvinistic industry. But for all her success, Phillips remained an outsider in the all-male Hollywood club. She had a talent for deal-making, hard-balling and wise-cracking, and a considerable appetite for drink, drugs and sex. But while these predilections were tolerated and even encouraged among 'the boys', Phillips found herself gradually ostracized. By the late 1980s she was ready to burn bridges and name names, and the result was this coruscating memoir of her career. Julia Phillips died on 1 January 2002 at the age of 57, but her book will stand as one of the classic exposés of La-La-Land in all its excesses and iniquities.

You'll Never Eat Lunch in this Town Again

"Una apacible tarde de agosto, Aliona y Sofia, hermanas de once y ocho años, juegan a orillas del mar. Cuando emprenden el camino de regreso a casa, un extraño se ofrece a llevarlas en su coche. Ellas, confiadas ante la amabilidad del desconocido, aceptan. Las niñas solo se alarman al ver que dejan atrás el desvío que debían haber tomado. Cuando Aliona saca su móvil y el hombre se lo arrebata de las manos, las hermanas comprenden que están en peligro. La pesadilla acaba de comenzar. Así arranca La desaparición, como un noir que transcurre a lo largo de un año en la gélida y remota región de Kamchat­ka, aunque muy pronto se revela como mucho más. Sin duda hay un misterio que resolver: ¿qué incierto destino aguarda a las hermanas Golosóvskaia? Pero, ante todo, la novela -estructurada en trece capítulos que se centran en otros tantos personajes femeninos, todos ellos conectados por el secuestro de las niñas- plasma con maestría el impacto que el terrible suceso tendrá en la vida de las mujeres de Kamchatka y saca a relucir las distintas formas de violencia que padecen. Víctimas de la inestabilidad y el desam­paro, sienten que la tierra sobre la que caminan podría desaparecer en cualquier momento, y se preguntan qué será lo próximo que la vida les arrebate. Considerada por la crítica estadounidense una de las irrupciones literarias más relevantes de los últimos tiempos, Julia Phillips ha escrito una impactante novela que, gracias a su estilo absorbente, sobrio y poético, y a una enorme empatía hacia sus personajes, se erige como una hipnótica historia de historias en la que convergen el suspense, la más acuciante denuncia y la deriva existencial."--Contracubierta.

La desaparición

La terra che scompare

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Das Verschwinden der Erde

Four days are left now, and Miranda and her friends are running out of time and resources to stop Kadar from taking over Dalriada Castle and using his pathway into the world; Bryn. The less Miranda sees of a future, the more she turns to her past. Defined by events she cannot alter, she is forced to look inside for strength and she is not finding it. Slowly, her allies arrive at the castle, prepared to face the enemy; but as Kadar's forces gather, they will be outnumbered. Hope is in short supply as a traitor wreaks havoc on the inner circle, but it is the unexpected players that will tip the scale; one way or the other.

Unlikely Saints

Miranda, Queen of Argyll

Επίτευγμα ενσυναίσθησης και φαντασίας, το βιβλίο εξερευνά τα δεσμά της οικογένειας και της κοινότητας, και παρουσιάζει τη Ρωσία όπως δεν την έχουμε ξαναδεί. Μια αξέχαστη ιστορία γεμάτη σασπένς που μας συστήνει μια ιδιαίτερα προικισμένη συγγραφέα.

Γη που χάνεται

De verdwijning van twee jonge meisjes heeft grote invloed op de kleine gemeenschap op het Russische schiereiland Kamtsjatka.

roman

Verdwijnende aarde

De två systrarna Aljona och Sofia, elva och åtta år, leker för sig själva på en stenstrand på Kamtjatka i slutet av ett långt och ensamt sommarlov. De blir erbjudna skjuts hem av en främmande man och försvinner sedan spårlöst. Polisutredningen som pågår under veckor och till slut månader leder ingenstans. Brottet går som ett eko genom det lilla sammansvetsade samhället och särskilt dess kvinnor lever med en ny sorts rädsla och en känsla av förlust. Försvinnande värld utspelar sig under ett år på Kamtjatkahalvön i nordöstra Ryssland och berättar många människors liv, människor vars öden på ett eller annat sätt hör ihop: ett vittne, en granne, en poliskommissarie, en mamma. Genom de olika personerna förs vi allt djupare in i en värld som på samma gång känns väldigt avlägsen och ändå liknar vår. En värld i förändring, en försvinnande värld. Trådarna i boken knyts tätare och tätare och strålkastarljuset sätts på ras, kultur, sexualitet och vägen från Sovjetunionen till det post-sovjetiska Ryssland.

Försvinnande värld

Sur le rivage de la péninsule du Kamtchatka, aux confins de la Russie, deux petites filles disparaissent. L'enlèvement bouleverse les habitants : le coupable serait-il un étranger de passage ? Pire, l'un d'entre eux ? Comme une onde de choc, le trouble se propage et vient ébranler la vie de dix femmes dans leur quotidien, leurs amours et leurs rêves secrets, tandis que le puzzle de la disparition se reconstitue peu à peu... Dans un décor inoubliable, entre volcans, eaux sombres et faune hostile, Julia Phillips construit un huis clos magistral dans la lignée de Laura Kasischke et d'Alice Munro, où l'émotion se mêle au suspense.

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