From the bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, a stunning novel about a young girls 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 shes ever known, her sole consolation the thought of being with her brother again.From the Trade Paperback edition.