Julia Phillips

Una apacible tarde de agosto, Aliona y Sofia, de once y ocho años, juegan a orillas del mar. Cuando emprenden el camino de regreso, un extraño se ofrece a llevar a las hermanas en su coche. Ellas, en su ingenuidad, confiadas ante la amabilidad del hombre, aceptan. Las niñas solo se alarman al ver que el hombre pasa de largo el desvio que conduce hacia su casa. Cuando Aliona saca su movil y el se lo arrebata de las manos, las hermanas comprenden que estan en peligro. La pesadilla acaba de comenzar.Asi arranca La desaparicion, como un noir que transcurre a lo largo de un año en la gelida y remota region de Kamchat-ka, aunque muy pronto se revela como mucho mas. Sin duda hay un misterio que resolver: ¿que incierto destino aguarda a las hermanas Golosovskaia? Pero, ante todo, la novela estructurada en trece capitulos que se centran en otros tantos personajes femeninos, todos ellos conectados por la desaparicion de las niñas plasma con maestria el impacto que el terrible suceso tendra en la vida de las mujeres de Kamchatka y saca a relucir las distintas formas de violencia que estas padecen. Victimas de la inestabilidad y el desamparo, todas sienten que la tierra sobre la que caminan podria abrirse bajo sus pies en cualquier momento, y se preguntan que sera lo proximo que la vida les arrebate.Considerada por la critica en Estados Unidos una de las irrupciones literarias mas relevantes de los ultimos años, Julia Phillips ha escrito una impactante primera novela que, gracias a su estilo absorbente, sobrio y poetico, y a una enorme empatia hacia sus personajes, se erige como una hipnotica historia de historias en la que convergen el suspense, la mas acuciante denuncia y la deriva existencial.

A stunning debut from an acclaimed travel writer, Disappearing Earth is about two sisters who go missing on the remote volcanic peninsula of Kamchatka.Clues to the crime lie in the lives - and stories of violence and loss - of twelve women in the girls' rural Russian community. As the police quickly lose interest in the case, these women never stop searching and hoping. Beautifully written, thought-provoking, intense and cleverly wrought, this is the first novel from a mesmerising new talent, perfect for fans of Claire Fuller and Jane Harper.

eautifully 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 most extraordinarily beautiful and haunting first novel, and the unveiling of a rare and special talent' New Statesman '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 'Phillips explores the devastation in this complex, imaginative and beautifully written crime novel, which is as beautiful as the scenery it depicts.' Woman's Weekly 'I was so absorbed I forgot to take notes...each new domestic world was deftly conjured and fresh.' Sarah Moss, The Guardian 'This book takes the 'missing girl' trope and turns it on its head' Elle 'Intriguing, tantalising, perfectly executed.' Spectator

Thrilling and propulsive, glorious and terrifying. Julia Phillips is a brilliant writer Ann PatchettThey were sisters and they would last past the end of time.Sam and 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 on the ferry that delivers wealthy mainlanders to their vacation homes while Elena does bar work at the local golf club, but even together they cant 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 its time to leave the island. But Elena responds differently to the massive beast. Enchanted by its presence, she throws into doubt the desire 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, richly imagined novel from one of the most acclaimed young writers at work today.

Julia Phillips became a Hollywood player in the freewheeling 70s; the first woman to win the Best Picture Oscar as a 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 notoriosly 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 80s, she was ready to burn bridges and name names, and the result was this coruscating memoir of her career. Julia Phillips died in Jan 2002 at the age of 57, but her book should stand as one of the classic episodes of La-La-Land in all its excesses and iniquities.

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 writers 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 Phillipss language make you go, Damn, thats good. The Los Angeles Review of BooksA superb debut. New York Times

Sur le rivage de la péninsule du Kamtchatka, aux confins de la Russie, deux petites filles disparaissent. Lenlèvement bouleverse les habitants : le coupable serait-il un étranger de passage ? Pire, l

À presque trente ans, Sam et Elena mènent une existence aussi étriquée que l’île de l’État de Washington où elles ont toujours vécu. Elles se saignent aux quatre veines pour couvrir les frais médicau

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the celebrated author of Disappearing Earth comes a tale of family, obsession, and a mysterious creature in the woodsa mesmerizing story about hope, sisterhood, and survival with a truly shocking twist at the end (People, Book of the Week).NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS CHOICE A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK! FINALIST FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Vulture, Chicago Public LibraryThrilling and propulsive, glorious and terrifying. Julia Phillips is a brilliant writer.Ann PatchettBeautiful and haunting . . . this is brilliant.Publishers Weekly (starred review)They were sisters and they would last past the end of time.Sam and 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 on the ferry that delivers wealthy mainlanders to their vacation homes while Elena bartends at the local golf club, but even together they cant 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 its time to leave the island. But Elena responds differently to the massive beast. Enchanted by its presence, she throws into doubt the desire 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 usand within usBear is a propulsive, mythical, richly imagined novel from one of the most acclaimed young writers in America.

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A propulsive, emotionally engaging debut novel about the intricate bonds of family and community, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before.Superb.... Brilliant.... Phillipss deep examination of loss and longing ... is a testament to the novels power. The New York Times Book ReviewOne August afternoon, two sistersSophia, eight, and Alyona, elevengo missing from a beach on the far-flung Kamchatka Peninsula in northeastern Russia. Taking us through the year that follows, Disappearing Earth enters the lives of women and girls in this tightly knit community who are connected by the crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mother. We are transported to vistas of rugged beautyopen expanses of tundra, soaring volcanoes, dense forests, the glassy seas that border Japan and Alaskaand 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.

La fascinante historia de dos hermanas cuyas vidas se ven transformadas por la aparición de una enigmática criatura del bosque Sam y Elena sueñan con una vida diferente, muy lejos de la idílica isla de San Juan en la que nacieron y en la que las dos hermanas no hacen mas que trabajar para sacar adelante a su madre enferma. Sam sirve cafes en el ferry que lleva a los ricos del continente a sus casas de vacaciones mientras Elena es camarera en el club de golf local, y ni siquiera juntas ganan lo suficiente para mantener a la familia a flote. Hasta que un dia se produce la mas insolita aparicion: un enorme oso empieza a rondar la casa familiar. Sam, asustada, esta mas convencida que nunca de que es hora de abandonar la isla. Pero Elena reacciona de manera muy distinta ante la imponente fiera: fascinada por su presencia, empieza a cuestionar sus antiguos sueños de huida, algo que aterra a Sam mucho mas de lo que cualquier bestia fabulosa pueda hacerlo. Tras el exito de su primera novela, La desaparicion, Julia Phillips, una de las autoras jovenes mas celebradas de la literatura estadounidense en los ultimos años, retorna con Oso, una fabula moderna que nos habla de fraternidad, desigualdad social y de la enigmatica relacion que mantenemos con la naturaleza. Una obra cautivadora e imaginativa sobre los delicados lazos que unen a las hermanas, el misterio de los afectos y las obsesiones que nos atrapan hasta dominarnos.

Una apacible tarde de agosto, Aliona y Sofia, de once y ocho años, juegan a orillas del mar. Cuando emprenden el camino de regreso, un extraño se ofrece a llevar a las hermanas en su coche. Ellas, en su ingenuidad, confiadas ante la amabilidad del hombre, aceptan. Las niñas solo se alarman al ver que el hombre pasa de largo el desvio que conduce hacia su casa. Cuando Aliona saca su movil y el se lo arrebata de las manos, las hermanas comprenden que estan en peligro. La pesadilla acaba de comenzar. Asi arranca La desaparicion, como un noir que transcurre a lo largo de un año en la gelida y remota region de Kamchat-ka, aunque muy pronto se revela como mucho mas. Sin duda hay un misterio que resolver: ¿que incierto destino aguarda a las hermanas Golosovskaia? Pero, ante todo, la novela ?estructurada en trece capitulos que se centran en otros tantos personajes femeninos, todos ellos conectados por la desaparicion de las niñas? plasma con maestria el impacto que el terrible suceso tendra en la vida de las mujeres de Kamchatka y saca a relucir las distintas formas de violencia que estas padecen. Victimas de la inestabilidad y el desamparo, todas sienten que la tierra sobre la que caminan podria abrirse bajo sus pies en cualquier momento, y se preguntan que sera lo proximo que la vida les arrebate. Considerada por la critica en Estados Unidos una de las irrupciones literarias mas relevantes de los ultimos años, Julia Phillips ha escrito una impactante primera novela que, gracias a su estilo absorbente, sobrio y poetico, y a una enorme empatia hacia sus personajes, se erige como una hipnotica historia de historias en la que convergen el suspense, la mas acuciante denuncia y la deriva existencial. Un debut solido y adictivo que arranca como un thriller y se va transformando en una honda indagacion sobre el modo en que la violencia afecta a la vida de las mujeres en la peninsula de Kamchatka. La novela te atrapa desde el primer capitulo. The New York Times El desenlace de La desaparicion suscita un deseo inmediato de releer los capitulos que nos han conducido hasta el final: ciertos acontecimientos y personajes que habian parecido triviales adquieren nuevos significados. The New Yorker Una primera novela magnifica, audaz y practicamente perfecta. La penetrante indagacion sobre la perdida y el anhelo que lleva a cabo Phillips nos da la medida de la magnitud de esta novela. The New York Times Book Review Hace unos dias senti la necesidad de leer un libro que me sumergiera en algun lugar hermoso, duro, aislado, desconocido. Y entonces, como por arte de magia, cayo en mis manos La desaparicion, ambientada en la Rusia oriental, y resulto ser todo eso y mucho mas. Jia Tolentino