The High Mountains of Portugal

Resumen del libro

To suffer and do nothing is to be nothing, while to suffer and do something is to become someone. He must strike onwards to the High Mountains of Portugal! In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomas discovers an old journal. It hints at the location of an extraordinary artefact that - if it exists - would redefine history.

Travelling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this treasure. Some thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist finds himself at the centre of a murder mystery. Fifty years on, a Canadian senator takes refuge in northern Portugal, grieving the loss of his beloved wife.

But he comes to his ancestral village with an unusual companion: a chimpanzee. Three stories. Three broken hearts.

One exploration: what is a life without stories? The High Mountains of Portugal takes the reader on a road trip through Portugal in the last century - and through the human soul.

Biografía del autor

Yann Martel (1963) es canadiense pero, hijo de diplomáticos, nació en España y su infancia ha transcurrido en lugares como Francia, México o Alaska. Estudió filosofía en la Universidad de Trent y ha vivido en Irán, Turquía y la India. Su primera novela, Vida de Pi, fue galardonada con el prestigioso Booker Prize y recompensada por el favor de la crítica y de cientos de miles de lectores en todo el mundo. En la colección Áncora y Delfín de Destino ha aparecido también su novela breve La historia de la familia Roccamatio de Helsinki.