The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann MartelMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is my first book by Yann Martel. I saw the movie of his book "The Life of Pi", but I didn't read it... Shame on me!
The High Mountains of Portugal is beautiful and poetic and sad.
Divided into 3 parts: Homeless, Homeward and Home, each tell the story of a different man and are linked one with the other.
The link, however, seemed to me to be loneliness.
In Homeless, Tomas suffers from the death of his lover and his son. In Homeward, Dr. Eusebio Lozora misses his wife and Maria Dores her husband and son. And in Home, Peter Trovy grieves the life he had with his wife.
In all three stories, there were parts where I couldn't see the point of some situations: A man walking backwards so as to object: he shows his back to the world and to God
Agatha Christie being compared to the Gospels...
And last but not least, the adoption of a chimpanzee!
In the end, all these makes sense and what's more, it is woven together to make a whole, amazing narration.
I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review
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