The Complete Book of Vegetables
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The Complete Book of Vegetables
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With this highly anticipated new novel, the author of the bestselling Life of Pi returns to the storytelling power and luminous wisdom of his master novel. The High Mountains of Portugal is a suspenseful. dinary 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
Thirty-five years later, a pathologist devoted to the novels of Agatha Christie, whose wife has possibly been murdered, finds himself drawn into 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.
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Tonda KusOctober 12, 2015
With this highly anticipated new novel, the author of the bestselling Life of Pi returns to the storytelling power and luminous.
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Alexander ZaytsevOctober 12, 2015
With this highly anticipated new novel, the author of the bestselling Life of Pi returns to the storytelling power and luminous.
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With this highly anticipated new novel, the author of the bestselling Life of Pi returns to the storytelling power and luminous wisdom of his master novel. The High Mountains of Portugal is a suspenseful.
Thirty-five years later, a pathologist devoted to the novels of Agatha Christie, whose wife has possibly been murdered, finds himself drawn into 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.
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Andy Patrick October 12, 2015
With this highly anticipated new novel, the author of the bestselling Life of Pi returns to the storytelling power and luminous.