The High Mountains of Portugal

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This is a list of the mountains in Portugal, including the mountains with more than 1400 meters of elevation and with, at least, 100 meters of topographic prominence. The comparison between religion and science is a central theme. The crucifix of the Messiah with a chimpanzee face means that Father Ulisses already believed in Darwinism before it was invented. In the first part, set in 1904, Tomas, a museum curator, crosses Portugal in an early motor car, in search of a mysterious crucifix carved by a missionary in Africa. Horrified by slavery, the missionary seems to have abandoned religion in favour of more radical ideas, and Tomas eventually follows suit. But despite the nominally dramatic events of his journey, the writing strains to evoke feeling. Even when Tomas kills a small child, his response feels muted and flat: “He churns with horror. Then a hand seizes that horror and stuffs it in a box and closes the lid.”

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At the 2016 Governor General's Awards, Christophe Bernard was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English to French translation for the novel's French translation, Les hautes montagnes du Portugal.

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New Year's Eve, 1938. Eusebio Lozora is a medical examiner in Bragança. He has a conversation with his deceased wife Maria. She compares the novels of Agatha Christie to the New Testament. Then he receives a visit from Maria Castro. She has the corpse of her husband Rafael with her. He was the father of the blond child that was killed in Part 1. During an autopsy Eusebio finds a chimpanzee and a bear cub inside of the corpse. Martel studiously avoids giving any offence here, by making sure that every one of his ideas is hedged and muddled. The central motif running through the novel’s three sections is a chimpanzee, and each story touches on the Darwinian notion that “we are risen apes, not fallen angels”.

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Some character names refer to the Bible. Tomás and Peter are names of apostles. The mother of the angel-child is named Maria. The High Mountains of Portugal is a 2016 novel by Canadian author Yann Martel. [1] [2] [3] The novel is split into three sections, each of which concerns a widower.