Recently, I've put myself through the emotional wringer again with another debut, Emily Murdoch's If You Find Me; this YA novel opens in the remote Tennessee woods, where Carey teaches Jenessa manners, elocution and the deeds of Winnie-the-Pooh in the absence of a bipolar concert-violinist mother who has left both girls with palimpsests of scars.
The reading year culminated with two hotly anticipated books: Jane Smiley's masterful, lyrical Some Luck (Mantle £18.99), the first of a multi-voiced trilogy which opens on a remote farm in Iowa in the 1920s, and Elif Shafak's The Architect's Apprentice (Viking £14.99), the story of an elephant tamer in the sultan's court of the Ottoman empire.
The original is set in a dusky, dystopian Los Angeles which never sees the sunlight, but Ridley Scott has revealed that the forthcoming sequel to the cult 1982 sci-fi film Blade Runner will open on a remote farm in the Wyoming countryside, in a landscape which appears to have been ravaged by environmental catastrophe.
Imanta, which opened last fall, was built in a remote location with seclusion and intimacy in mind.
On the 30th day after the earthquake, we were able to open the first tent school, in a remote mountaintop village overlooking Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince
The UN opened its second mass refugee camp, Azraq, a year ago in a remote desert locale.
As "Astrid & Veronika" opens, a New Zealand writer, Veronika, arrives in a remote Swedish village in flight from a mysterious tragedy.
Opening in 1971 in a convent in a remote, forested area of the Philippines, the story (written by Mr. Sandoval and Jerry Gracio) centers on the recently arrived Sister Lourdes (Jodi Sta. Maria), a nervous novice adjusting to the routines of her new home.
His next project, Shinta Mani Wild, due to open in November 2018, is set on a remote, unprotected, and unchartered wildlife corridor between two Cambodian national parks.
