When a young Englishwoman named Jennifer Morton leaves London to visit relatives on their sheep ranch in the Australian outback, she falls in love both with the gloriously beautiful country and with Carl, a Czech refugee who was a doctor in his own land and now works as a lumberjack. They are brough
A Far Country
β Scribed by Daniel Mason
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Alfred A. Knopf
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 146 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 128399495X
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β¦ Synopsis
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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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