Night Train To Lisbon - Softcover

"'One reads this book almost breathlessly, can hardly put it down... A handbook for the soul, intellect, and heart.' Die Zeit (Germany) 'This excellent novel is a lesson in life and lucidity.' La Quinzaine Literaire (France) 'A sensation. The best book of the last ten years... A novel of incredible clarity and beauty.' Bucher (Germany) 'One of the great European novels of the past few years.' Page des libraires (France)"

Night Train to Lisbon tells the story of mild-mannered, middle-aged Classics scholar Raimund Gregorius. When, one afternoon, he walks out of his class while giving a lesson, his uncharacteristic impulsiveness surprises him as much as his students. This break from his hitherto predictable routine is driven by two chance encounters - the first with a mysterious Portuguese woman, and the with second a book discovered in a forgotten corner of an old bookshop, the journal of an enigmatic Portuguese aristocrat. With the book as his talisman, Mundus finds himself boarding the night train to Lisbon on a journey to find out more about its author, Amadeu del Prado - who was this man whose words both haunt and compel him, seeming somehow clairvoyant? His investigations lead him all over the city, and bring him into contact with those who were entangled in Prado's life. Gradually, he makes unexpected friends and the picture of an extraordinary man emerges: a difficult, brilliant, charismatic man, 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, wonderful told, propelled both by the mystery at its heart and its evocative subject.