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, 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 ...
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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, 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, she descends into the chaos of the city to find him. Strikingly visual, told with astonishing empathy, the story of Isabel's quest - her dignity and determination, her deeply spiritual world - is a universal tale about the bonds of family and a sister's love for her brother; about journeys and longing, survival and true heroism: a tour de force of great emotional and narrative power.
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Add this copy of A Far Country to cart. $2.39, good condition, Sold by Greenworld Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Arlington, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Epworth.
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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.
