Huh, have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?

Not much to it, is there?

Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.

Mmm, that is good.

Now that's what Asani should sound like.

Go all crisp in with walkers.

Delicious.

Hi there, I'm Jason Gatz and you you're listening to Think Again, a Big Think podcast.

Since 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas in small, powerful doses from the most creative thinkers of our time.

The Think Again podcast takes us far out of our

comfort zone. We surprise some of the smartest people you know with ideas they're not prepared to discuss.

I'm very, very happy today to be speaking with novelist Jan Martel, author of the Man Booker

prize-winning novel Life of Pie, which was also made into an Academy Award-winning film by director Ang Lee.

His latest book, The High Mountains of Portugal, spans decades and continents.

It's about three different men on three very different journeys into the unknown.

Welcome to Think Again, Young.

Thank you for having me.

I have a million questions for you. I literally just finished reading the book five minutes ago.

First of all, how did you end up writing this kind of a novel with three very, very different?

One reviewer called novellas set in very different contexts, but with themes connecting them for sure.

It arose and organically, I guess.

That's the way it came out.

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