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The High Mountains of Portugal

By: Yann Martel
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
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About this listen

From the author of the international publishing sensation Life of Pi comes the story of a quest for a lost relic.

The journey takes us from Africa in the 1600s through Portugal at the turn of the last century to contemporary North America.

Showcasing Martel's trademark delight in the fundamental stories that unite us, The High Mountains of Portugal unfolds with a dazzling lightness of touch. With its intricately woven layers of meaning and all the pleasures and surprises of a good yarn, it is also a beautiful, tender, clear-eyed and heartfelt exploration of love, suffering, faith and evolution.

By turns funny, tragic and sublime, The High Mountains of Portugal reminds us that it is our ability to weave remarkable stories out of our spiritual and philosophical concerns that makes us - and keeps us - human.

©2015 Yann Martel (P)2016 Canongate Books Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Inspiring Heartfelt Portugal

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The narrator was perfect for this story. There were moments of difficulty but overall A1.

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I'm afraid I had to stop listening to this halfway through as the pronunciation of Portuguese was just awful. I'm probably in the minority but if you know how to speak Portuguese it's like nails down a blackboard. I'm not sure why they did get a reader that could pronounce names and places properly.

The story itself was odd but enjoyable enough for me to try the actual book at some point.

Awful narration .. odd story

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This richly written story wanders through time, on the edge of normality, rooted in the essence of being human. A bit of a mystery, the ends tie up leaving you wanting more.

Captivating

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on the whole a great book. I like the way the different story lines are interwoven. Though the first section did randomlyń6ùñ

a fascinating book

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This book is interesting, a singular story well told. The narration, however, is problematic. The narrator has not taken care in pronouncing accurately even first names of characters, inventing versions of Portuguese words, mostly reverting to a Spanish-influenced guess. The accent the actor attempts when characters speak directly is a strange Mexican sounding English, which is somewhat insulting. This is a book which is set in Portugal. Anyone who is a Portuguese speaker will find it difficult to tolerate. Spanish and Portuguese are 2 different languages. Please respect that next time.

The difficult to tolerate narration.

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