![]() ![]() ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() From this geographical surprise, we know right away that things aren't always what they seem.Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title The High Mountains of Portugal Author Yann Martel In Homeless, a turn-of-the-century museum worker, still in mourning from three great losses, sets out from Lisbon on a quest to find a highly unusual religious object in the distant region of his country called the high mountains, where, as it turns out, there aren't mountains at all. (I purposefully avoid spoilers in my account here this review provides a fuller description.) Spread across the 20th century, these stories link up by their common setting in Portugal, by entangled family histories, by freshly felt grief, and by the strangely compelling presence of chimpanzees. The High Mountains of Portugal consists of three linked sections called Homeless, Homeward and Home. Martel's storytelling is fabulous, both literally - he blurs real worlds and dream worlds, human lives and lives of other animals - and figuratively. Martel released his highly anticipated follow-up to the Booker Prize-winning "Life of Pi" last week.įans of author Yann Martel's immensely popular Life of Pi, or of the film adapted from the novel 11 years later, will understand my eager anticipation of his new novel, The High Mountains of Portugal, released last week. ![]() Author Yann Martel poses in Toronto on April 5, 2010. ![]()
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