The High Mountains of Portugal
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Canongate Books
Published:4th Aug '22
Should be back in stock very soon
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Lost in 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.
A New York Times Bestseller
An Australian Independent Bookseller Bestseller
#1 on The Globe & Mail's Bestseller List
#1 on Toronto Star's Bestseller List
#1 on Maclean's Bestseller List
#1 on National Post's Bestseller List
#1 on McNally Robinson's Bestseller List
An ABA Indie Bestseller
Replete with every bizarre and beautiful thing on earth . . . his many fans will delight * * The Times * *
Moments of real wonder . . . glorious * * Sunday Times * *
His best since Life of Pi . . .miraculous * * Washington Post * *
Surprising and yet entirely believable * * Observer * *
Martel is an original, strange and subtle thinker -- Ursula Le Guin * * Guardian * *
Engagingly readable * * Daily Mail * *
[Martel's] depiction of loss israw and deeply affecting. . . odd, fabulous, deliberately oblique * * Telegraph * *
Martel is incapable of writing a dull sentence * * Daily Express * *
A book of great wisdom and beauty -- Gavin Francis
Lucid and thought provoking * * Mail on Sunday * *
Replete with every bizarre and beautiful thing on earth . . . his many fans will delight * * The Times * *
Moments of real wonder . . . glorious * * Sunday Times * *
His best since Life of Pi . . .miraculous * * Washington Post * *
Surprising and yet entirely believable * * Observer * *
Martel is an original, strange and subtle thinker -- Ursula Le Guin * * Guardian * *
Engagingly readable * * Daily Mail * *
[Martel's] depiction of loss israw and deeply affecting. . . odd, fabulous, deliberately oblique * * Telegraph * *
Martel is incapable of writing a dull sentence * * Daily Express * *
A book of great wisdom and beauty -- Gavin Francis
Lucid and thought provoking * * Mail on Sunday * *
- Short-listed for The Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards - Fiction (with a sense of place) 2017 (UK)
ISBN: 9781838859572
Dimensions: 234mm x 153mm x 25mm
Weight: 428g
352 pages
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