{"product_id":"the-high-mountains-of-portugal-paperback","title":"The High Mountains of Portugal - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYann Martel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER - \"Fifteen years after \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Pi, \u003c\/i\u003e Yann Martel is taking us on another long journey. Fans of his Man Booker Prize-winning novel will recognize familiar themes from that seafaring phenomenon, but the itinerary in this imaginative new book is entirely fresh. . . . Martel's writing has never been more charming.\"--Ron Charles, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tom s 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 Tom s's quest. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe High Mountains of Portugal\u003c\/i\u003e--part quest, part ghost story, part contemporary fable--offers a haunting exploration of great love and great loss. Filled with tenderness, humor, and endless surprise, it takes the reader on a road trip through Portugal in the last century--and through the human soul. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe High Mountains of Portugal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Just as ambitious, just as clever, just as existential and spiritual  as \u003ci\u003eLife of Pi\u003c\/i\u003e] . . . a book that rewards your attention . . . an excellent book club choice.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"There's no denying the simple pleasures to be had in \u003ci\u003eThe High Mountains of Portugal\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Charming . . . Most Martellian is the boundless capacity for parable. . . . Martel knows his strengths: passages about the chimpanzee and his owner brim irresistibly with affection and attentiveness.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A rich and rewarding experience . . .  Martel] spins his magic thread of hope and despair, comedy and pathos.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"I took away indelible images from \u003ci\u003eHigh Mountains, \u003c\/i\u003eenchanting and disturbing at the same time. . . . As whimsical as Martel's magic realism can be, grief informs every step of the book's three journeys. In the course of the novel we burrow ever further into the heart of an ape, pure and threatening at once, our precursor, ourselves.\"\u003cb\u003e--NPR\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Refreshing, surprising and filled with sparkling moments of humor and insight.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Dallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"We're fortunate to have brilliant writers using their fiction to meditate on a paradox we need urgently to consider--the unbridgeable gap and the unbreakable bond between human and animal, our impossible self-alienation from our world.\"\u003cb\u003e--Ursula K. Le Guin, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" Martel packs] his inventive novel with beguiling ideas. What connects an inept curator to a haunted pathologist to a smitten politician across more than seventy-five years is the author's ability to conjure up something uncanny at the end.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A fine home, and story, in which to find oneself.\"\u003cb\u003e--Minneapolis \u003ci\u003eStar Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYann Martel\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eLife of Pi, \u003c\/i\u003e the global bestseller that won the 2002 Man Booker Prize (among other honors) and was adapted to the screen in the Oscar-winning film by Ang Lee. He is also the author of the short story collection \u003ci\u003eThe Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, \u003c\/i\u003e the novels \u003ci\u003eSelf \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBeatrice and Virgil, \u003c\/i\u003e and the nonfiction work \u003ci\u003e101 Letters to a Prime Minister\u003c\/i\u003e. Born in Spain in 1963, Martel studied philosophy at Trent University, worked at odd jobs--tree planter, dishwasher, security guard--and traveled widely before turning to writing. He lives in Saskatoon, Canada, with the writer Alice Kuipers and their four children.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 29, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757767328032,"sku":"9780812987034","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3c5934ad4ac15cf664d336070a1c3065.webp?v=1780111342","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-high-mountains-of-portugal-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}