The Niche of São Tiago
Subtitle: O nicho de São Tiago
By: JC. Rodrigue
Contributors: Eugénia Brito
Publisher: ABC de l'édition
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Rouyn-Noranda, Québec
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9782922952261
Subjects: Sense of Home
Genres: Historical Fiction
Other titles: Nicho de São Tiago
Work titles: Niche of São Tiago.
Description: Antonio, a young Portuguese-Canadian, travels from his home in Canada back to Portugal to pay his respects at the grave of his recently deceased grandmother. This simple trip, however, sparks a series of life-changing events. Next to that of his grandmother is the grave of Padre Manuel Antonio Gomes Himalaya—priest, scientist, inventor, ecologist and humanist. Intrigued, Antonio seeks to learn more about his fellow countryman and finds himself retracing the steps of the remarkable nineteenth century priest through France, Great Britain, the United States, and Argentina. Then a chance encounter with an American tourist leads him to the solar furnace, an extraordinary invention that Himalaya exhibited at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, and has not been seen since.
But what secret is the furnace hiding? What is Himalaya trying to tell him and the world? And who should he listen to? His desire to get ahead in the life, or the needs of his heart…
Notes: Text in English and Portuguese.