Our #BookTuesday pick for February 2 is The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel.
The author of the bestselling 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’s 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.
The High Mountains of Portugal—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.
Grab a copy today!