(Cazenovia) The “Open Evening Book Club” will hold its next meeting in the Story Garden Room Wednesday, May 4, at 7 p.m. Participants will have the opportunity to contemplate and discuss Yann Martel’s New York Times Bestseller, The High Mountains of Portugal. The Spanish-born Canadian author delivers this new work fifteen years after his Man Booker Prize-winning novel, The Life of Pi.
Around the turn of the century in Lisbon, a young man named Tomás discovers an old journal, which points to the existence of an extraordinary artifact that could redefine history. He embarks on a journey, in one of Europe’s earliest automobiles, in search of this mysterious object.
Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist and Agatha Christie murder mystery enthusiast becomes entangled in the consequences of Tomás’s quest.
Fifty years later, a Canadian senator seeks solace in his ancestral Portuguese home, following the death of his beloved wife. His traveling companion is none other than a chimpanzee. It is here in this village that the century-old quest for the mysterious artifact comes to an unexpected conclusion.
“The High Mountains of Portugal—part quest, part ghost story, part contemporary fable—offers a haunting exploration of great love and great loss. Filled with tenderness, humor, and endless surprise, it takes the reader on a road trip through Portugal in the last century—and through the human soul” (Amazon.com)
Books are available at the circulation desk.
All events at the Cazenovia Public Library are free and open to the public. For more information on the “Open Evening Book Club” or other events at the Library, call 655-9322 or visit www.cazenoviapubliclibrary.org.