The high mountains of Portugal : a novel /
In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomás discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that--if he can find it--would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure. Thirty-five years later...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Spiegel & Grau,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First Edition. |
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| Summary: | In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomás discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that--if he can find it--would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure. Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie finds himself at the center of a mystery of his own and drawn into the consequences of Tomás's quest. Fifty years on, a Canadian senator takes refuge in his ancestral village in northern Portugal, grieving the loss of his beloved wife. But he arrives with an unusual companion: a chimpanzee. And there the century-old quest will come to an unexpected conclusion. |
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| Item Description: | "Author of Life of Pi"--Jacket. |
| Physical Description: | 332 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780812997170 (hardcover : acid-free paper) 0812997174 (hardcover : acid-free paper) |