A Far CountryFrom the bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, a stunning novel about a young girl’s journey through a vast, unnamed country in search of her brother.Fourteen-year-old Isabel was born in a remote village with the gift and curse of “seeing farther.” When drought and war grip the backlands, her brother Isaias joins a great exodus to a teeming city in the south. Soon Isabel must follow, forsaking the only home she’s ever known, her sole consolation the thought of being with her brother again. |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 30 |
Section 3 | 69 |
Section 4 | 76 |
Section 5 | 106 |
Section 6 | 137 |
Section 7 | 154 |
Section 8 | 177 |
Section 9 | 202 |
Section 10 | 236 |
Section 11 | 266 |
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