The high mountains of Portugal : a novel
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
The high mountains of Portugal : a novel
AUTHOR:
Martel, Yann.
ISBN:
9780812997170
EDITION:
First edition.
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York : Spiegel & Grau, c2016.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
332 p. ; 22 cm
ABSTRACT:
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.
Homeless -- Homeward -- Home.
GENRE_TERM:
SUBJECT:
| Antiquities -- Fiction. |
| Quests (Expeditions) -- Fiction. |
| Portugal -- Fiction. |
| Allegories. |
BIBSUMMARY:
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.
Homeless -- Homeward -- Home.