The High Mountains Of Portugal: A Novel

"If you loved Yann Martel’s Booker Prize-winning novel, Life of Pi, his newest novel offers some familiar pleasures. Like its blockbuster predecessor, The High Mountains of Portugal explores themes of faith, loss and what it means to be home. This book also has a charismatic animal at its center — this time a chimpanzee, not a Bengal tiger. Despite those similarities, The High Mountains of Portugal feels new. It tells three connected stories spanning a century, all converging on the oddly named location of the title. There are no literal mountains in this corner of Portugal, but Martel’s characters still manage to find, in this landscape, a path to ascend."