PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9781782114710
- Categories BX, BXOS, Classics and Literary, extraordinary, F LIT, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Whateversary
- Author(s) Yann Martel
- Publisher Canongate Books
- Pages 352
- Format Trade Paperback
- Dimensions 15.3cm x 2.5cm x 23.4cm
- Weight 0.47 kg
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.