"The High Mountains of Portugal" is a susp enseful\, mesmerizing story of a great quest for meaning\, told in three i ntersecting narratives touching the lives of three different people and th eir families\, and taking us on an extraordinary journey through the last century. We begin in the early 1900s\, when Tomá\;s discovers an anc ient journal and sets out from Lisbon in one of the very first motor cars in Portugal in search of the strange treasure the journal describes. Thirt y-five years later\, a pathologist devoted to the novels of Agatha Christi e\, whose wife has possibly been murdered\, finds himself drawn into the c onsequences of Tomá\;s's quest. Fifty years later\, Senator Peter To vy of Ottawa\, grieving the death of his own beloved wife\, rescues a chim panzee from an Oklahoma research facility and takes it to live with him in his ancestral village in northern Portugal\, where the strands of all thr ee stories miraculously mesh together.
\nBeautiful\, witty and engag ing\, Yann Martel's new novel offers us the same tender exploration of the impact and significance of great love and great loss\, belief and unbelie f\, that has marked all his brilliant\, unexpected novels.
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