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This is the phenomenal international bestseller, now in paperback. 'A treat for the mind. One of the best books I have read in a long time' - Isabel Allende.Raimund Gregorius is a mild-mannered, middle-aged professor of ancient languages. One morning, as he is teaching, he is seized by a restlessness that drives him to abandon his classroom then and there - shocking his students, and surprising even himself. His unusual impulsiveness is driven by two chance encounters - with a mysterious Portuguese woman in a red coat; and with a book he finds hidden in a dusty corner of a second-hand bookshop, the journal of an enigmatic Portuguese aristocrat, Amadeu de Prado.With the book as his talisman, Raimund boards the night train to Lisbon on a journey to find out more about Prado, whose words haunt and compel him. Gradually, a picture of an extraordinary man emerges: a difficult, brilliant, charismatic figure, a doctor and a poet, and a rebel against Salazar's dictatorship. And as Prado's story comes to light so, too, Gregorius himself begins his life anew. Hurtling through the dark, "Night Train to Lisbon" is a rich tale, wonderfully told, propelled by the mystery at its heart.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Night Train To Lisbon
• Author: Pascal Mercier
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448
• EAN: 9781843547136
• ISBN: 1843547139
• ID: 04260246
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Weight: 316 g
• Dimensions: 200 × 130 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. February 2009

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