Stones for Ibarra

<b>Winner of the National Book Award for First Work of Fiction</b> <p/><b>A very good novel indeed with echoes of Gabriel García Márquez Katherine Anne Porter and even Graham Greene.--<i>The New York Times</i></b> <p/> Richard and Sara Everton just over and just under forty have come to the small Mexican village of Ibarra to reopen a copper mine abandoned by Richard's grandfather fifty years before. They have mortgaged sold borrowed left friends and country to settle in this remote spot; their plan is to live out their lives here connected to the place and to each other. <p/> The two Americans the only foreigners in Ibarra live among people who both respect and misunderstand them. And gradually the villagers--at first enigmas to the Evertons--come to teach them much about life and the relentless tide of fate.