The High Mountains of Portugal

The High Mountains of Portugal is the new novel by Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi. It is told in three parts. Starting at the turn of the 20th century a young man grieving for his wife and son sets forth in one of Europe's first cars on a quest into the mountains of Portugal. Forty years later, a Portuguese pathologist, and devotee of Agatha Christie mysteries, finds himself drawn into his own mystery. Another fifty years on we meet a Canadian Senator, also grieving for his wife who relocates with his newly acquired pet ape to the small mountain town in Portugal where his parents were born,

All three stories are fascinating in their own way and intersect by the end. Although I greatly enjoy Martel's writing I felt very disappointed by the end of the book. It just didn't all come together for me.