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The high mountains of Portugal

LT004149
2016
Yann Martel

Editora Canongate
Idioma Inglês
Estado : Como Novo
Encadernação : Brochado
Disponib. - Em stock

€3
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  • Ano
  • 2016
  • Código
  • LT004149
  • ISBN
  • 9781782114741
  • Detalhes físicos
  • Dimensões
  • 13,00 x 20,00 x
  • Nº Páginas
  • 332

Descrição

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.

The high mountains of Portugal

€3

LT004149
2016
Yann Martel
Editora Canongate
Idioma Inglês
Estado : Como Novo
Encadernação : Brochado
Disponib. - Em stock

Mais detalhes
  • Ano
  • 2016
  • Código
  • LT004149
  • ISBN
  • 9781782114741
  • Detalhes físicos

  • Dimensões
  • 13,00 x 20,00 x
  • Nº Páginas
  • 332
Descrição

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.