The High Mountains of Portugal - Softcover

Martel, Yann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782114718 ISBN 13: 9781782114710

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

Lost in Portugal. Lost to grief. With nothing but a chimpanzee. The extraordinary new novel from the author of Life of Pi. In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomas discovers an old journal. It hints at the location of an extraordinary artefact that - if it exists - would redefine history. Travelling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this treasure. Some thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist finds himself at the centre of a murder mystery. Fifty years on, a Canadian senator takes refuge in northern Portugal, grieving the loss of his beloved wife. But he comes to his ancestral village with an unusual companion: a chimpanzee. Three stories. Three broken hearts. One exploration: what is a life without stories? The High Mountains of Portugal takes the reader on a road trip through Portugal in the last century - and through the human soul.

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Product Description:

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Lost in Portugal. Lost to grief. With nothing but a chimpanzee. The extraordinary new novel from the author of Life of Pi. In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomas discovers an old journal. It hints at the location of an extraordinary artefact that - if it exists - would redefine history. Travelling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this treasure. Some thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist finds himself at the centre of a murder mystery. Fifty years on, a Canadian senator takes refuge in northern Portugal, grieving the loss of his beloved wife. But he comes to his ancestral village with an unusual companion: a chimpanzee. The High Mountains of Portugal takes the reader on a road trip through Portugal in the last century - and through the human soul.

Review:

Replete with every bizarre and beautiful thing on earth . . . his many fans will delight * * The Times * * Moments of real wonder . . . glorious * * Sunday Times * * His best since Life of Pi . . . miraculous * * Washington Post * * [Martel's] depiction of loss is raw and deeply affecting . . . odd, fabulous, deliberately oblique * * Telegraph * * Martel is incapable of writing a dull sentence * * Daily Express * * A book of great wisdom and beauty -- Gavin Francis Martel is an original, strange and subtle thinker -- Ursula Le Guin * * Guardian * * Lucid and thought provoking * * Mail on Sunday * * Engrossing . . . Martel has a way of capturing the charm, and charge, of an animal and human relationship * * Independent * * Surprising and yet entirely believable * * Observer * * Martel is a writer with a light touch and a lively fancy . . . Engaging * * Scotsman * * Engagingly readable * * Daily Mail * * An exploration of faith and how we can learn to accept death . . . [Martel] has an ability to write about the very fundamental human emotional threads that join us * * Irish Independent * * Sharp, comical, and carries a deeply poignant message * * The List * * It is an unusual novel, a vivid and uncanny adventure in storytelling * * The Skinny * *

About this edition

• Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1782114718
• ISBN 13: 9781782114710
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352