Bestselling Author Yann Martel in Santa Cruz!

Monday, February 8, 2016 - 7:00pm

The High Mountains of Portugal is a suspenseful story about love, loss, and faith that take us on a mesmerizing journey through the last century. Filled with tenderness, humor, and endless surprise, Yann Martel’s new novel offers a haunting exploration of great love and great loss, asking questions about faith and the lack of faith that are at the heart of all of his novels.

Tickets for this offsite event, which will be held at Peace United Church, are on sale below and in the store, while supplies last.

Tickets $29.35 = 2 seats at the event + 1 copy of The High Mountains of Portugal

The publication date of The High Mountains of Portugal is February 2, 2016. Tickets purchased before that date will include a voucher redeemable for one copy of The High Mountains of Portugal (at Bookshop Santa Cruz on and after February 2nd, or at the venue on the night of the event).

Co-sponsored by The Santa Cruz Education Foundation.

Purchase tickets at www.bookshopsantacruz.com

Told in three intersecting narratives—part quest narrative, part ghost story, part contemporary realism—The High Mountains of Portugal begins in the early 1900s, when a young man named Tomás discovers in the archives of Lisbon an ancient journal describing an extraordinary artifact that he believes will challenge the church’s understanding of religion forever, and sets out for the High Mountains of Portugal in search of it. Thirty-five years later, a pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie is drawn into the consequences of Tomás’s quest as he finds himself at the center of a murder story of his own. And 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 entwine.