Book Recommendation: A Far Country by Daniel Mason
A Far Country (2007) is the story of a young girl from a very poor family in a remote village who traveled a great distance to live with a relative in an urban area and the search for her long missing brother by the bestselling author Daniel Mason. Click on the links to learn more about the author and his books. The link for the book title will take you to a New York Times review.
Daniel Mason is the author of The Piano Tuner (2002), A Far Country (2007), and The Winter Soldier (2018); A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth, will be published in 2020. His writing has been translated into 28 languages, adapted for opera and stage and shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Northern California Book Award. His short stories and essays have appeared in Harper’s, Zoetrope: All Story and Lapham’s Quarterly, and have been awarded a Pushcart Prize, and a National Magazine Award. in 2014, he was a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A Clinical Assistant Professor in the Stanford University Department of Psychiatry, his research interests include the subjective experience of mental illness and the influence of literature, history, and culture on the practice of medicine. His author website can be found at www.danielmasonbooks.com.
Goodreads Review of A Far Country
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.
Dahlia, Ferncliff Copper, American Dahlia Society Show, Longwood Gardens,
Kennett Square, PA USA IMG 5623
Canon PowerShot G11 Camera
Photograph by Roy Kelley
Roy and Dolores Kelley Photographs
Comments(34)