The high mountains of Portugal, a novel, Yann Martel
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The high mountains of Portugal, a novel, Yann Martel
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fiction
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The high mountains of Portugal
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Yann Martel
Sub title
a novel
Summary
In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomàs 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 Tomàs'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
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