Night Train to Lisbon

by Pascal Mercier

• ISBN13: 9781555849238
• ISBN10: 1555849237
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-10-07
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

Summary

A huge international best seller embraced by American booksellers, critics, and readers, Night Train to Lisbon went into four hardcover printings that confirmed its place as one of the most appealing European novels of recent years. Raimund Gregorius teaches classical languages at a Swiss lyceacute;e, and lives a life governed by routine. One day, a chance encounter with an enigmatic Portuguese woman inspires him to question his life-and leads him to an extraordinary book that will open the possibility of changing his existence. He takes the train to Lisbon that same night, and with him the words of Amadeu de Prado, a doctor whose practice and principles led him into confrontation with Salazar's dictatorship, and a man whose intelligence and magnetism left a mark on everyone who met him. As Gregorius unlocks the mystery of who Prado was, an extraordinary tale takes shape, centered on a group of people working in utmost secrecy to fight dictatorship, and the betrayals that threaten to expose them. A richly layered international bestseller propelled by the mystery at its heart, Night Train to Lisbon is a haunting tale of repression, resistance, and the universal human struggle to connect.