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The High Mountains of Portugal

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The High Mountains of Portugal

Auteur(s): Yann Martel
Narrateur(s): Mark Bramhall
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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.

©2015 Yann Martel (P)2015 Random House Audio Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Historique Portugal Suspense Spirituel Inspirant Mountains Portugal

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"Narrator Mark Bramhall delivers a confident performance of Yann Martel's exploration of faith and personal tragedy.... Bramhall is achingly convincing as the grief-stricken Tomás." ( AudioFile)
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I couldn't leave it for a minute, altough sometimes the sufferings were difficult to bare.
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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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