The high mountains of Portugal A novel
Large print - 2016
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's quest. Fifty years o...n, 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.
- Subjects
- Published
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Waterville, Maine :
Wheeler Publishing Large Print
2016.
- Edition
- Large print edition
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- 451 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
- ISBN
- 9781410487476
1410487474 - Main Author
An allegorical novel in three parts is set in the fictional High Mountains of seventeenth-century Portugal and beyond, where characters explore questions of loss and faith while on a quest, while tackling ghosts, and in the contemporary world.
Review by Publisher Summary 2An allegorical novel in three parts is set in the fictional High Mountains of 17th-century Portugal and beyond, where characters explore questions of loss and faith while on a quest, while tackling ghosts and in the contemporary world. By the award-winning author of Life of Pi. (historical fiction). Simultaneous.
