Daniel Mason | A Far Country
- Copyright: © Daniel Mason 2007
From 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.
"'A Far Country is' a book about . . . people who live as subsistence farmers or flee their land to scrabble for a living in the smog-choked megacities of the south... But for a bit of historical luck, its ‘far country’ might be Britain, America or anywhere else." - The New York Times Book Review"With both boldness and circumspection... Mason writes in stripped-down prose that strives toward a sort of meditative lucidity." - Chicago Tribune- Language: English
- Dimensions: 16 х 24 cm
- Pages: 265
- Cover: hardcover
- First published: 2007
- This edition published: 2007