The high mountains of Portugal : a novel

ISBN: 9780812997187 (ebook)
ISBN: 0812997174 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
ISBN: 9780812997170 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
Physical Description: 332 pages ; 22 cm print
Edition: First Edition.
Publisher: New York : Spiegel &amp; Grau, [2016]

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.