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Adult Fiction Book Club

Discuss "The High Mountains of Portugal," a novel by Yann Martel ("Life of Pi"), that blends contemporary fiction with historical fiction and magical realism. Registration is required.  

"The High Mountains of Portugal" is a suspenseful, mesmerizing story of a great quest for meaning, told in three intersecting narratives touching 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, when Tomás discovers an ancient journal and sets out from Lisbon in one of the very first motor cars in Portugal in search of the strange treasure the journal describes. Thirty-five years later, a pathologist devoted to the novels of Agatha Christie, whose wife has possibly been murdered, finds himself drawn into the consequences of Tomás's quest. Fifty years later, Senator Peter Tovy of Ottawa, grieving the death of his own beloved wife, rescues a chimpanzee from an Oklahoma research facility and takes it to live with him in his ancestral village in northern Portugal, where the strands of all three stories miraculously mesh together.

Beautiful, witty and engaging, Yann Martel's new novel offers us the same tender exploration of the impact and significance of great love and great loss, belief and unbelief, that has marked all his brilliant, unexpected novels.

To reserve your copy, visit or call Sarnia Library @ 519-337-3291 or visit lclibrary.ca. To reserve an eBook version of "The High Mountains of Portugal," browse the Libby app.

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