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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