The High Mountains of Portugal
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Mark Bramhall
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Written by:
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Yann Martel
About this listen
The author of the best-selling Life of Pi returns to the storytelling power and luminous wisdom of his master novel.
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' 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.
Filled with tenderness, humor, and endless surprise, The High Mountains of Portugal - part quest, part ghost story, part contemporary fable - offers a haunting exploration of great love and great loss, asking questions about faith and lack of faith that are at the heart of all of Yann Martel's novels.
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- darin
- 2021-05-05
Deep and beautiful
Life, love, suffering, relationship and the connection of all things are set in profound context and revealed with sensitive clarity as the listener is called towards an irresistibly deep self-examination and to gaze upon everything and everyone through new eyes.
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- Riki
- 2020-09-21
circles within life
I couldn't leave it for a minute, altough sometimes the sufferings were difficult to bare.
But there is also optimism and positive closure.
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- mavo
- 2024-02-23
A brilliant treatise on love and loss
This is a startlingly compelling and insightful novel. Divided into three stories that share a location and some critical overlapping details, this is a book that strikes the heart through very unusual characters and events. I don't want to say too much because I really think you should read this. My heart grieved with these characters and sometimes, I cried for joy. This is an important and momentous book and it lives with me long after I have read it.
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