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Read by Brian Smith
Summary of Yann Martel's The High Mountains of Portugal is a novel comprised of three subtly but intricately linked novellas, each set in a different time period but culminating with a revelation of their interconnection. The protagonist of each novella is a man grieving the loss of his spouse: In 1904, Tomás Lobo, a young man who has lost his father, lover, and son in the span of one week, sets out on a journey from Lisbon to northeast Portugal in an automobile-one of the first of its time. Tomás is an assistant curator intent on finding an iconoclastic relic he learned about in the journal of a seventeenth-century priest involved in the slave trade in Portuguese Angola…
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