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Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier (2007, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherGROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
ISBN-100802118585
ISBN-139780802118585
eBay Product ID (ePID)61496320
Product Key Features
Book TitleNight Train to Lisbon
Number of Pages496 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2007
TopicGeneral, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorPascal Mercier
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight25 oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal833.914
SynopsisA 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 Europe's 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 day--after a chance encounter with a mysterious Portuguese woman--abandons 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 Prado's life. Gradually, the picture of an extraordinary man emerges--a doctor and poet who rebelled against Salazar's dictatorship.
LC Classification NumberPT2673.E6827N3313
