The book is centered on one specific act of violence-the disappearance of the Golosovsky sisters.What kinds of violence are represented in the book? What role does violence play in these women's lives? What forms of violence are seen in public, and which take place in private? Discuss the theme of violence against women in the novel.Valentina was sorry for her daughter, for all the children, who would grow up without the love of a motherland. But when the country changed, Kamchatka went down with it. The peninsula was so tightly defended that even other Russians needed government permission to enter. There were no vagrants, then, no salmon poachers, and no planes but Soviet military jets overhead. Military funding used to stuff the stores with food. 52: She grew up knowing the region at its best. She spent her youth in the brief reckless period between the Communists' rigidity and Putin's strength, and though she had grown into a boundary enforcer, inspecting imports and issuing citations, within herself there remained a post-Soviet child.
Katya's family had gone as far north as Esso to meet the natives with their reindeer herds, west to see steaming craters, and south to pull caviar out of what had become unpatrolled lakes. 39: After the USSR collapsed, there were no longer any restrictions on travel, no stop to movement the Soviet military bases that had constrained the entire peninsula were shuttered, so Kamchatka's residents could finally explore their own land. How do the characters experience this transition to a post-Communist society differently? Consider these two passages from Katya's and Valentina's points-of-view: During the Soviet era, Kamchatka was a closed military zone, and it is now a remote tourist destination.How do you think the sparsely populated Kamchatka setting informs the plot and characters? How do you think the story would be different if it were set somewhere else?.How are these two crimes treated differently in their communities? How are they similar? How does the social, political, and economic climate of Kamchatka affect the way these victims are viewed and discussed? Do you see any similarities to the way people talk about crimes in your own community? Before Alyona and Sophia went missing, another young woman, Lilia, disappeared too.How is the theme of disappearance explored throughout the rest of the novel? How does this opening story relate to other examples of disappearances in the book? What does the title, Disappearing Earth, mean to you? In the first chapter, Alyona tells a story about a town that suddenly disappears when a wave washes it away.
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