For years she longs for her sister's return, searching for her everywhere she goes.Īlmost a year after her daughters Sophia and Alyona go missing, Marina is plagued by grief and despair. Refusing to believe this morbid theory, her sister Natasha thinks she ran away because of their difficult family. Despite these dynamics, her mother Alla is convinced Lilia was also abducted and most likely murdered. The police give up the investigation after little effort, which her family believes is because she is a native woman. The community attributes her disappearance to her own foolishness. As a young girl, Lilia was known to be wild and promiscuous. Meanwhile the northern communities cannot help comparing the Golosovsky girls to Lilia Solodikov's disappearance almost four years prior. The police force grows disillusioned, assuring the community they will search the river for the girls' bodies as soon as spring comes. The investigation strays then to the Golosvosky girls' estranged father, ultimately bearing no productive leads. Valentina, however, determined to be a part of the case, forms an alliance with the key investigator Kolya Ryakhovsky. The police are unable to use this information to solve the case.Īs time passes, the community increasingly doubts Oksana's report, believing she worked with the police to concoct the notion of a kidnapping at all. Oksana, out walking her dog the day the girls disappeared, can only remember seeing a strange-looking white man leading two young girls into a well-kept black vehicle.

The city inhabitants believe a foreigner is most likely to blame for the crime, and begin fiercely working with the police to find the girls' abductor. Parents like Valentina Nikolaevna refuse to let their children play outside, particularly in the location where the girls were last seen by a local, Oksana. It is not until the man takes Alyona's cellphone in the car and misses the girls' turn that Alyona realizes they are in danger.Īfter the girls' disappearance from Petropavlovsk, the community is thrown into terror. They then accept his offer for a ride home. When a strange man asks them for help with a twisted ankle, the girls agree to walk him to his car. The sisters Sophia and Alyona Golosovsky spend an August afternoon by the water in the city center. Random House, 2019.ĭisappearing Earth begins at the end of the summer on Kamchatka Peninsula. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Phillips, Julia.

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