by Yann Martel · FABER ET FABER · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781782114758
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«The High Mountains of Portugal» is the literary fiction novel by Yann Martel, published by Faber et Faber in paperback (345 pages, in English).
In 1904, in Lisbon, Tomás finds a diary pointing to an artefact capable of redefining history and sets off to find it in one of the first automobiles. Years later, a Portuguese pathologist becomes involved in a murder; later, a Canadian senator arrives at a village in northern Portugal with a chimpanzee named Odo.
For readers of literary fiction and magical realism seeking a story about travel, loss, and faith.
Yann Martel, is a Canadian author who wrote the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi, an international bestseller published in more than 50 territories. It has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and spent more than a year on the bestseller lists of The New York Times and The Globe and Mail, among many other best-selling lists. Life of Pi was adapted for a movie of the same name directed by Ang Lee, receiving four Academy Awards including the Academy Award for Best Director and winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.
