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."