La desaparición

On a peaceful August afternoon, Aliona and Sofia, eleven and eight year old sisters, play by the sea. As they make their way home, a stranger offers to drive them in his car. They, confident before the friendliness of the stranger, accept. The girls are only alarmed to see that they leave behind the detour they should have taken. When Aliona takes her cell phone out and the man snatches it from her hands, the sisters understand that they are in danger. The nightmare has just begun. Thus begins The Disappearance, like a noir that takes place over the course of a year in the frozen and remote region of Kamchatka, although very soon it is revealed as much more. Undoubtedly there is a mystery to be solved: what uncertain fate awaits the Golosovskaya sisters? But above all, the novel -structured in thirteen chapters that focus on as many female characters, all of them connected by the kidnapping of the girls- masterfully captures the impact that the terrible event will have on the lives of the women of Kamchatka and brings out the different forms of violence they suffer. Victims of instability and helplessness, they feel that the land on which they walk could disappear at any moment, and they wonder what life will take from them next.