The High Mountains of Portugal

Lost to grief. With nothing but a chimpanzee.A man thrown backwards by heartbreak goes in search of an artefact that could unsettle history. A woman carries her husband to a doctor in a suitcase. A Canadian senator begins a new life, in a new country, in the company of a chimp called Odo.From these stories of journeying, of loss and faith, Yann Martel makes a novel unlike any other: moving, profound and magical.