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The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel

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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
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The High Mountains of Portugal Reviews

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 is raw 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 is raw 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 * *

About Yann Martel

Yann Martel is the author of a short story collection, The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, and of four novels, Self, Beatrice & Virgil, Life of Pi (for which he was awarded the 2002 Man Booker Prize), and his latest, The High Mountains of Portugal. Life of Pi was adapted for the silver screen by Ang Lee, garnering four Oscars. Martel also ran a guerilla book club with Stephen Harper, sending the former prime minister of Canada a book every two weeks for four years. The letters that accompanied the books were published as 101 Letters to a Prime Minister. Martel lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with the writer Alice Kuipers, and their four children.

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GOR013211599

ISBN 13

9781838859572

ISBN 10

1838859578

Title

The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel

Author

Yann Martel

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Canongate Books

Year published

20220804

Number of pages

352

Prizes

Short-listed for The Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards - Fiction (with a sense of place) 2017 (UK)

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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

The High Mountains of Portugal Yann Martel

The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel

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