Book Review: Julia Phillips's debut novel is set in a remote and mysterious place, but its concerns are instantly, and disturbingly, recognizable
The Kamchatka Peninsula, the strip of land that curves like an earring below Siberia, was a closed territory during Soviet rule, its proximity to the United States making it so geopolitically valuable that citizens needed military clearance to enter it.
In Julia Phillips’s debut, “Disappearing Earth” , longtime residents of Kamchatka think longingly of the era of enforced isolation. Revmira, a member of the region’s indigenous Even people, recalls an “idyllic village, a principled people, a living Even culture, a socialist nation of great achievement.” To Valentina, a Russian school official,...
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