The High Mountains of Portugal
A Novel
With this highly anticipated new novel, the author of the bestselling Life of Pi returns to the storytelling power and luminous wisdom of his master novel.The High Mountains of Portugal is a suspenseful, mesmerizing story of a great quest for meaning, told in three intersecting narratives touching the lives of three different people and their families, and taking us on an extraordinary journey through the last century. We begin in the early 1900s, when Tomás discovers an ancient journal and sets out from Lisbon in one of the very first motor cars in Portugal in search of the strange treasure the journal describes. Thirty-five years later, a p…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-345-80945-2
- EAN: 9780345809452
- Produktnummer: 18919786
- Verlag: Knopf Canada
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'773 KB
Über den Autor
YANN MARTEL is the author of Life of Pi, the #1 international bestseller published in more than 50 territories that has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide, won the 2002 Man Booker (among many other prizes), spent more than a year on Canadian and international bestseller lists, and was adapted to the screen in an Oscar-winning film by Ang Lee. It was selected for Esquire's list of top ten books and the Toronto Star's ten most important books of the decade. He is also the award-winning author of The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios (which won the Journey Prize), Self, Beatrice & Virgil, and a book of recommended reading: 101 Letters to a Prime Minister. Born in Spain in 1963, he studied philosophy at Trent University, worked at odd jobs--tree planter, dishwasher, security guard--and travelled widely before turning to writing. He lives in Saskatoon with the writer Alice Kuipers and their four children. The author lives in Saskatoon, SK.
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