num_pages: 304
description: They had escaped their country but they couldnt escape the pastHaving lost both her home and family to a brutal dictatorship Isabel has fled to Spain where she watches young bronzed beauties and tries to forget the horrors that lie in her homeland. Shadowing her always attired in rumpled linen suits and an eyepatch is The Eye a fellow ex-pat and poet with a notorious reputation. An unlikely friendship blossoms a kinship of shared grief. Then The Eye receives a mysterious note and suddenly returns home his fate uncertain.Left with the keys to The Eyes apartment Isabel finds two of his secret manuscripts: a halting translation of an ancient profane work and an evocative testament of his capture during the revolution. Both texts bear disturbing images of blood and torture and the more Isabel reads the more she feels the inexplicable compulsion to go home. It means a journey deep into a country torn by war still ruled by a violent regime but the idea of finding The Eye becomes ineluctable. Isabel feels the manuscripts pushing her to go. Her country is lost and now her only friend is lost too. What must she give to get them back? In the end she has only herself left to sacrifice. THE SEA DREAMS IT IS THE SKY asks:How does someone simply give up their home...especially when their home wont let them?
language: English
title: The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky
publisher: Harper Voyager