The high mountains of Portugal : a novel / Yann Martel.
| Author/creator | Martel, Yann author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First Edition. |
| Publication | New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2016] |
| Description | 332 pages ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Abstract | 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. |
| General note | "Author of Life of Pi"--Jacket. |
| Genre/form | Allegories. |
| Genre/form | Allegories. |
| Genre/form | Allegories. |
| Genre/form | Fiction. |
| LCCN | 2015022883 |
| ISBN | 9780812997170 hardcover acid-free paper |
| ISBN | 0812997174 hardcover acid-free paper |
| ISBN | electronic book |