At the southern end of a large land mass called Ifrik, two children are victims of a palace coup, forced to flee poverty and drought.

Mara, hungering for answers for questions about life, sustains a loving nature despite the cruelty around her, Dann is as brave a hero as you'll find anywhere.

A compelling and entertaining novel that, through the remarkable odyssey of a brother and sister, manages to tell us a great deal about the present we only dimly perceive and scarcely know now to value.

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• British Edition
  
• American Edition