Instances

Lisbon, 1904: A man named Tomas discovers an old journal that hints of an extraordinary artefact which - if he can find it - would redefine history. Travelling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, Tomas sets out in search of this strange treasure... Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese patho...

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, ...

With this highly anticipated new novel, the author of the bestselling Life of Pi returns to the storytelling power and luminous wisdom of his master novel.The High Mountains of Portugal is a suspenseful, mesmerising story of a great quest for meaning, told in three intersecting narratives that to...

The High Mountains of Portugal is a suspenseful, mesmerising story of a great quest for meaning, told in three intersecting narratives that touch the lives of three different people and their families, and taking us on an extraordinary journey through the last century.We begin in the early 1900s,...