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Cargando... Disappearing Earth: A novel (2019 original; edición 2019)por Julia Phillips (Autor)
Información de la obraDisappearing Earth por Julia Phillips (2019)
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...the mystery (which turns out to have quite a few twists; it's worth reading until the very end) isn't everything, either. As Phillips has said in interviews, her book is a means of exploring the violence in women's lives, violence in many forms: The aforementioned widowing, which occurs when a man dies in a car accident on an icy road. Domestic violence in all its abusive forms. Abduction, rape, keeping secrets. As the many characters live through the calendar year, they appear in each others' stories, bit by bit. If you're paying attention, you may figure who took the girls. There will be those eager to designate “Disappearing Earth” a thriller by focusing on the whodunit rather than what the tragedy reveals about the women in and around it. And if there is a single misstep in Phillips’s nearly flawless novel, it arrives with the tidy ending that seems to serve the needs of a genre rather than those of this particularly brilliant novel. But a tidy ending does not diminish Phillips’s deep examination of loss and longing, and it is a testament to the novel’s power that knowing what happened to the sisters remains very much beside the point. The ending of “Disappearing Earth” ignites an immediate desire to reread the chapters leading up to it: incidents and characters that seemed trivial acquire new meanings. The novel’s title comes from a scary story that Alyona tells her sister in the very first chapter, about a village on a bluff overlooking the ocean which is suddenly washed away by a tsunami. This story will be retold by the novel’s close, just as the novel will retell itself. What appears to be a collection of fragments, the remains of assorted personal disasters and the detritus of a lost empire, is in truth capable of unity. For the heirs of all that wreckage, discovering that they have the ability to achieve this unity—that they have had it all along—is the one great act of detection required of them. Storytelling is a major thread here, with the telling of stories starting and ending the book, and appearing throughout. Disappearing Earth is closer to a traditional novel than Elizabeth Strout’s Anything is Possible or Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, but its use of storytelling functions in much the same way, each chapter a story unto itself, the stories layered on top of those that came before, the threads and themes accruing as the book builds. The book never utilizes a point-of-view more than once. One of the downsides of this type of novel, of course, is that in not returning to characters and their particular stories, the reader may feel dissatisfied. In later stories, we catch glimpses or hear whispers of what’s happened to earlier characters, but there is a suspension here, a feeling of loss. This structure, though, nicely speaks to the loss of the girls, and allows that sense of incompletion to underscore the possibility that there may not be an ending at all, much less one that is fulfilling. Storytelling is a major thread here, with the telling of stories starting and ending the book, and appearing throughout. Disappearing Earth is closer to a traditional novel than Elizabeth Strout’s Anything is Possible or Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, but its use of storytelling functions in much the same way, each chapter a story unto itself, the stories layered on top of those that came before, the threads and themes accruing as the book builds. The book never utilizes a point-of-view more than once. One of the downsides of this type of novel, of course, is that in not returning to characters and their particular stories, the reader may feel dissatisfied. In later stories, we catch glimpses or hear whispers of what’s happened to earlier characters, but there is a suspension here, a feeling of loss. This structure, though, nicely speaks to the loss of the girls, and allows that sense of incompletion to underscore the possibility that there may not be an ending at all, much less one that is fulfilling. PremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
Una apacible tarde de agosto, Aliona y Sofia, hermanas de once y ocho an?os, juegan a orillas del mar. Cuando emprenden el camino de regreso a casa, un extran?o se ofrece a llevarlas en su coche. Ellas, confiadas ante la amabilidad del desconocido, aceptan. Las nin?as solo se alarman al ver que dejan atra?s el desvi?o que debi?an haber tomado. Cuando Aliona saca su mo?vil y el hombre se lo arrebata de las manos, las hermanas comprenden que esta?n en peligro. La pesadilla acaba de comenzar. Asi? arranca La desaparicio?n, como un noir que transcurre a lo largo de un an?o en la ge?lida y remota regio?n de Kamchatka, aunque muy pronto se revela como mucho ma?s. Sin duda hay un misterio que resolver: que? incierto destino aguarda a las hermanas Goloso?vskaia? Pero, ante todo, la novela -estructurada en trece capi?tulos que se centran en otros tantos personajes femeninos, todos ellos conectados por el secuestro de las nin?as- plasma con maestri?a 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 padecen. Vi?ctimas de la inestabilidad y el desamparo, sienten que la tierra sobre la que caminan podri?a desaparecer en cualquier momento, y se preguntan que? sera? lo pro?ximo que la vida les arrebate. Considerada por la cri?tica estadounidense una de las irrupciones literarias ma?s relevantes de los u?ltimos tiempos, Julia Phillips ha escrito una impactante novela que, gracias a su estilo absorbente, sobrio y poe?tico, y a una enorme empati?a hacia sus personajes, se erige como una hipno?tica historia de historias en la que convergen el suspense, la ma?s acuciante denuncia y la deriva existencial. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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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.