The high mountains of Portugal : a novel /
Martel, Yann,
The high mountains of Portugal : a novel / Yann Martel. - First edition. - 332 pages ; 22 cm
"Author of Life of Pi"--Jacket.
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's 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.
9780812997170 0812997174
2015022883
Antiquities--Fiction.
Quests (Expeditions)--Fiction.
Portugal--Fiction.
Allegories.
The high mountains of Portugal : a novel / Yann Martel. - First edition. - 332 pages ; 22 cm
"Author of Life of Pi"--Jacket.
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's 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.
9780812997170 0812997174
2015022883
Antiquities--Fiction.
Quests (Expeditions)--Fiction.
Portugal--Fiction.
Allegories.