葡萄牙的高山 – The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel

一九〇四年，葡萄牙。有一天，托马斯开始倒着走路。在那之前，他失去了一生所爱——爱人、孩子和父亲。深陷痛苦泥沼中的他意外发现一本来自两百多年前葡萄牙殖民地的、尘封的神父日记，里面记载到，神父制作了一件“世间罕有 ”的圣物，后来辗转流落到了葡萄牙高山区。托马斯借了伯父的雷诺汽车，踏上寻找圣物的公路旅行……

一九三八年的最后一天深夜，还有几个小时就到新年。病理医师欧塞比奥在解剖室邂逅了举止奇怪的妻子，她谈起阿加莎·克里斯蒂和《圣经》之间千丝万缕的联系。奇怪的客人随之而至——一位带着破旧手提箱，从葡萄牙高山区的小村庄跋涉而来的老妇，想要知道自己亡夫的讯息……

一九八〇年。加拿大参议员彼得并不会知道，自己会在偶然造访的灵长目研究所与一只猿猴心意相通，也不会知道，当自己带着这只猿猴踏上寻根之旅时，自己的命运会与七十多年前的怪人托马斯联系在一起……

每个人都在讲述自己的故事。穿透语言的迷雾，

你将看到一个暗流汹涌、堆满镜子的世界。

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.

The High Mountains of Portugal—part quest, part ghost story, part contemporary fable—offers a haunting exploration of great love and great loss. Filled with tenderness, humor, and endless surprise, it takes the reader on a road trip through Portugal in the last century—and through the human soul. 

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