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The High Mountains of Portugal
Yann Martel
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Description for The High Mountains of Portugal
paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 155 x 234 x 31. Weight in Grams: 458. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782114710
SKU
KTJ8039239
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Yann Martel
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.
Reviews for The High Mountains of Portugal
Replete with every bizarre and beautiful thing on earth . . . his many fans will delight
The Times
Moments of real wonder . . . glorious
Sunday Times
His best since Life of Pi . . . miraculous
Washington Post
[Martel's] depiction of loss is raw and deeply affecting . . . odd, fabulous, deliberately oblique
Telegraph
Martel is incapable of writing a dull sentence
Daily Express
A book of great wisdom and beauty
Gavin Francis Martel is an original, strange and subtle thinker
Ursula Le Guin
Guardian
Lucid and thought provoking
Mail on Sunday
Engrossing . . . Martel has a way of capturing the charm, and charge, of an animal and human relationship
Independent
Surprising and yet entirely believable
Observer
Martel is a writer with a light touch and a lively fancy . . . Engaging
Scotsman
Engagingly readable
Daily Mail
An exploration of faith and how we can learn to accept death . . . [Martel] has an ability to write about the very fundamental human emotional threads that join us
Irish Independent
Sharp, comical, and carries a deeply poignant message
The List
It is an unusual novel, a vivid and uncanny adventure in storytelling
The Skinny
The Times
Moments of real wonder . . . glorious
Sunday Times
His best since Life of Pi . . . miraculous
Washington Post
[Martel's] depiction of loss is raw and deeply affecting . . . odd, fabulous, deliberately oblique
Telegraph
Martel is incapable of writing a dull sentence
Daily Express
A book of great wisdom and beauty
Gavin Francis Martel is an original, strange and subtle thinker
Ursula Le Guin
Guardian
Lucid and thought provoking
Mail on Sunday
Engrossing . . . Martel has a way of capturing the charm, and charge, of an animal and human relationship
Independent
Surprising and yet entirely believable
Observer
Martel is a writer with a light touch and a lively fancy . . . Engaging
Scotsman
Engagingly readable
Daily Mail
An exploration of faith and how we can learn to accept death . . . [Martel] has an ability to write about the very fundamental human emotional threads that join us
Irish Independent
Sharp, comical, and carries a deeply poignant message
The List
It is an unusual novel, a vivid and uncanny adventure in storytelling
The Skinny