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The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel (Hardback, 2016)

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Lost in Portugal. Lost to grief. With thing but a chimpanzee. The extraordinary new vel 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 rthern 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.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
ISBN-10
1782114696
ISBN-13
9781782114697
eBay Product ID (ePID)
225026117

Product Key Features

Author
Yann Martel
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Topic
General & Literary Fiction

Additional Product Features

Place of Publication
Edinburgh
Author Biography
Yann Martel was born in Spain in 1963. After studying philosophy at university, he worked at odd jobs and travelled before turning to writing. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed 2002 Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi, which was translated into thirty-eight languages. Yann Martel lives in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Date of Publication
02/02/2016
Edition Statement
Main
Country of Publication
United Kingdom

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