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A Far Country

In this flat but intermittently intriguing follow-up to his bestselling debut, The Piano Tuner, Mason takes readers to two impoverished locales in an unnamed, possibly South American (and heavily Catholic) country: a rural area known as the backlands, and the Settlements, the poor outskirts of a large city. When drought and deprivation become overwhelming in the backlands, 14-year-old Isabel is sent by her family to live with relatives in the Settlement. Her older brother, Isaias, moved to the city several months earlier, and Isabel expects a happy reunion; however, he has gone missing. As Isabel tends to her cousin's baby and adjusts to the chaotic city life, the search for Isaias becomes her obsession, demanding all of her resources?including what may be psychic powers. The story's settings fail to evoke a distinct world; the backlands seem taken from the 1930s American Dust Bowl, while the city?with its nonspecific political corruption, simmering class tensions, and the popularity of saints, soccer and soap operas among its residents?is a grab bag of regional clichés.

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  • "In this flat but intermittently intriguing follow-up to his bestselling debut, The Piano Tuner, Mason takes readers to two impoverished locales in an unnamed, possibly South American (and heavily Catholic) country: a rural area known as the backlands, and the Settlements, the poor outskirts of a large city. When drought and deprivation become overwhelming in the backlands, 14-year-old Isabel is sent by her family to live with relatives in the Settlement. Her older brother, Isaias, moved to the city several months earlier, and Isabel expects a happy reunion; however, he has gone missing. As Isabel tends to her cousin's baby and adjusts to the chaotic city life, the search for Isaias becomes her obsession, demanding all of her resources?including what may be psychic powers. The story's settings fail to evoke a distinct world; the backlands seem taken from the 1930s American Dust Bowl, while the city?with its nonspecific political corruption, simmering class tensions, and the popularity of saints, soccer and soap operas among its residents?is a grab bag of regional clichés."@en
  • ""Fourteen-year-old Isabel, raised in a remote village on the edge of a sugarcane plantation, was borne with the gift and curse of "seeing farther."--P. [4] of cover."
  • "When drought and war threaten their land and her brother Isaias leaves their remote village on the edge of a sugarcane plantation to seek a better life in a southern city, Isabel tries to follow him, only to find that he has vanished."@en
  • "Een 14-jarig Braziliaans meisje trekt vanuit haar geboortedorp in het arme noorden naar de hoofdstad als ze lange tijd niets van haar broer heeft gehoord."
  • "Raised in a remote village on the edge of a sugarcane plantation, fourteen-year-old Isabel was born 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."@en
  • "When drought and war threaten their land and her brother Isaias leaves their remote village on the edge of a sugarcane plantation to seek a better life in a southern city, fourteen-year-old Isabel follows him, only to find that he has vanished."@en
  • "When drought and war threaten their land and her brother Isaias leaves their remote village on the edge of a sugarcane plantation to seek a better life in a southern city, fourteen-year-old Isabel follows him, only to find that he has vanished."
  • "Fourteen-year-old Isabel, who was raised in a remote village on the edge of a sugarcane plantation and who was born with the gift and curse of "seeing farther," must follow her older brother, Isaias, in an exodus to a teeming city in the south."
  • "Throughout their childhood in the dusty cane fields of San Michael, Isabel and her older brother Isaias have been inseparable. But when Isaias runs away to become a musician, Isabel's life changes irrevocably."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en
  • "Large type books"

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  • "A Far Country"@en
  • "A Far Country"
  • "A far country : [a novel]"
  • "A Far country"
  • "A far country : a novel"@en
  • "A far country : a novel"
  • "A far country"
  • "A far country"@en
  • "Un paese lontano"
  • "Un paese lontano"@it
  • "Un país lejano"@es
  • "Un País molt llunyà"@ca
  • "Um pais distante"
  • "Die Musik der Ferne : Roman"
  • "Die Musik der Ferne Roman"
  • "Un pays lointain : roman"
  • "Un país llunyà"
  • "Een ver land"
  • "Un País lejano"
  • "Un lointain pays : roman"
  • "Un lointain pays"

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