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The high mountains of Portugal : a novel / Yann Martel.

Martel, Yann, (author.).

Summary:

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. Early 1900s, Tomás discovers an ancient journal and sets out in search of the strange treasure the journal describes. Thirty-five years later, a pathologist finds himself drawn into the consequences of Tomás's quest. Fifty years later, Senator Peter Tovy of Ottawa rescues a chimpanzee and takes it to live with him in his ancestral village in northern Portugal, where the strands of all three stories miraculously mesh together. Beautiful, witty, and engaging, Yann Martel offers us the same tender exploration of the impact and significance of great love and great loss, belief and unbelief that has marked all his brilliant, unexpected novels.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780345809438
  • Physical Description: 332 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2016.
Subject: Antiquities > Fiction.
Faith > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Grief > Fiction.
Loss (Psychology) > Fiction.
Material culture > Fiction.
Voyages and travels > Fiction.
Spiritual life > Fiction.
Quests (Expeditions) > Fiction.
Portugal > Fiction.
Genre: Allegories.
Adventure fiction. 
Psychological fiction. 
Historical fiction. 
Canadian fiction. 
Literary fiction. 

Available copies

  • 31 of 36 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 2 of 3 copies available at Sechelt/Gibsons. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Gibsons Public Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 36 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Gibsons Public Library FIC MART (Text) 30886000603932 Adult Fiction Hardcover Volume hold Available -


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