When they spoke of it in town, they called it simply the city, as if it was the only city in the world ...Raised in a remote village on the edge of a sugarcane plantation, Isabel was born with the gift and curse of 'seeing farther'. When drought and war grip their land, her beloved brother Isaias joins a great exodus to a teeming, labyrinthine city in the south. Soon the fourteen-year-old Isabel follows, forsaking the only home she's ever known, her sole consolation the thought of being with her brother again. But when she ...
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When they spoke of it in town, they called it simply the city, as if it was the only city in the world ...Raised in a remote village on the edge of a sugarcane plantation, Isabel was born with the gift and curse of 'seeing farther'. When drought and war grip their land, her beloved brother Isaias joins a great exodus to a teeming, labyrinthine city in the south. Soon the fourteen-year-old Isabel follows, forsaking the only home she's ever known, her sole consolation the thought of being with her brother again. But when she arrives, she discovers that Isaias has disappeared. Weeks and then months pass, until one day, armed only with her unshakeable hope, Isabel descends into the chaos of the city to find him. Told with extraordinary empathy, richly evocative, the story of Isabel's quest -- of her dignity and determination, her deeply spiritual world -- becomes a universal tale about the bonds of family and a sister's love for her brother, about being caught between two worlds, and about true heroism. A tour de force of emotional and narrative power, it is destined to become a classic. 'Mason is a superb storyteller. He inhabits Isabel's mind with fine sensitivity, and cleverly uses his imaginary setting to write of dauntless, timeless love and loyalty' The Times
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Add this copy of A Far Country to cart. $16.99, very good condition, Sold by Brit Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Milton Keynes, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2008 by Picador.
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Add this copy of A Far Country to cart. $18.87, very good condition, Sold by Greener Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from London, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2008 by Picador.
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Add this copy of A Far Country to cart. $18.89, very good condition, Sold by Greener Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from London, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2008 by Picador.
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Very good. YELLOW PAGES **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.
Add this copy of A Far Country to cart. $22.23, new condition, Sold by Booksplease rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Southport, MERSEYSIDE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2008 by Picador USA.
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New. From the bestselling author of The Piano Tuner--a stunning new novel about a young girl's journey through a vast, unnamed country in search of her brother Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 226. 2008. Main Market. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
This is not your standard novel. The prose is sublime, the content archetypal. A young girl's quest for her lost brother moves slowly, gently, and with utmost dignity along the knife-edge of material poverty. The movement from one place to another, the persons she meets and the time she spends, the scraps of family that enfold her and the beauty or squalor of her natural environs are all the plot there is. Seeking and finding, loving and being faithful, inner movement and growth are what the tale is about and for. It takes a leisurely heart to walk her path with her. This is not to be squashed into a few minutes on the subway--or maybe that is where it belongs. This is not your ordinary love, but a transcendent grace that insists it will not be quenched.
