by Pascal Mercier · Atlantic Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781843547129
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«Night Train to Lisbon» is the contemporary novel by Pascal Mercier, published by Atlantic Books in paperback (436 pages, in English).
Raimund Gregorius, a Latin teacher in Switzerland, abandons his routine after encountering a mysterious Portuguese woman and takes the night train to Lisbon with a book by Amadeu de Prado, a doctor and writer who rebelled against Salazar's dictatorship. Investigating the author's life, he discovers an extraordinary man and ends up transforming his own.
«Night Train to Lisbon» is Pascal Mercier's third novel, translated from German by Barbara Harshav. Its original title, «Nachtzug nach Lissabon», dates from 2004; in 2007 it won the Grinzane Cavour Prize.
For readers of contemporary fiction who appreciate introspection and self-discovery, with Lisbon under Salazar's dictatorship as the setting.
Peter Bieri, better known by his pseudonym, Pascal Mercier, was a Swiss writer and philosopher.
