Night Train to Lisbon
of Pascal Mercier, Barbara Harshav (Translator)
Description
A huge international best seller, this ambitious novel plumbs the depths of our shared humanity to offer up a breathtaking insight into life, love, and literature itself. A major hit in Germany that went on to become one of Europeâs biggest literary blockbusters in the last five years, Night Train to Lisbon is an astonishing novel, a compelling exploration of consciousness, the possibility of truly understanding another person, and the ability of language to define our very selves. Raimund Gregorius is a Latin teacher at a Swiss college who one dayâafter a chance encounter with a mysterious Portuguese womanâabandons his old life to start a new one. He takes the night train to Lisbon and carries with him a book by Amadeu de Prado, a (fictional) Portuguese doctor and essayist whose writings explore the ideas of loneliness, mortality, death, friendship, love, and loyalty. Gregorius becomes obsessed by what he reads and restlessly struggles to comprehend the life of the author. His investigations lead him all over the city of Lisbon, as he speaks to those who were entangled in Pradoâs life. Gradually, the picture of an extraordinary man emergesâa doctor and poet who rebelled against Salazarâs dictatorship.
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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 496 pages
- Publisher Grove Press
- Publication Date December 21st 2007
- First Publication 10/28/04
- Language English
- ISBN 9780802118585
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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