The high mountains of Portugal : a novel / Yann Martel.
"Pack your bags: Fifteen years after The Life of Pi, Yann Martel is taking us on another long journey. Fans of his Man Booker Prize-winning novel will recognize familiar themes from that seafaring phenomenon, but the itinerary in this imaginative new book is entirely fresh. ... Martel's writing has never been more charming."--Ron Charles, The Washington Post. In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomás discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that--if he can find it--would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure. Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie finds himself at the center of a mystery of his own and drawn into the consequences of Tomás quest. Fifty years on, a Canadian senator takes refuge in his ancestral village in northern Portugal, grieving the loss of his beloved wife. But he arrives with an unusual companion: a chimpanzee. And there the century-old quest will come to an unexpected conclusion. The High Mountains of Portugal--part quest, part ghost story, part contemporary fable--offers a haunting exploration of great love and great loss. Filled with tenderness, humor, and endless surprise, it takes the reader on a road trip through Portugal in the last century--and through the human soul.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780147522863
- ISBN: 0147522862
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file (10 hr., 43 min., 33 sec.))
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [New York] : Random House Audio, 2016.
Content descriptions
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Mark Bramhall. |
Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from title details screen (OverDrive, viewed February 15, 2016). |
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