Yann Martel

The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard...

In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomás discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that--if he can find it--would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure. Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie finds himself at the center of a mystery of his own and drawn into the consequences...

'Las altas montañas de Portugal' es una novela de investigación y de fantasmas, y también una fábula contemporánea que ofrece una exploración inquietante sobre el amor y la pérdida. Llena de ternura, humor y grandes sorpresas, lleva al lector en un viaje por carretera a través de Portugal y a lo largo del último siglo y medio de historia. Un viaje que a la postre recorrerá el alma humana. En Lisboa, en 1904, un joven llamado Tomás descubre...

A young Pi Patel, overcoming a cataclysmic shipwreck, finds himself stranded on a lifeboat with the last survivor, a ferocious Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.