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A Far Country.(Brief article)(Book review)
Mason's second novel has echoes of his ardent debut, "The Piano Tuner": once more, a shy protagonist is thrust out of the familiar, on a quest for an elusive figure in a terrifying jungle. Here the sultry atmosphere of nineteenth-century Burma has been replaced by the dusty despair of an anonymous Third World nation, and the jungle is a teeming, restive city, where the fourteen-year-old heroine, a ...
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