Raimund Gregorious - Mundus, as his students affectionately call him - is a predictable character. A bookish Latin professor, well-respected, perhaps a little boring.
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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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EAN
9781843547129
Type
Fiction
Genre
Modern Fiction
Title
Night Train to Lisbon
Author
Pascal Mercier
Edition
Paperback
Publisher
Atlantic Books
ISBN
1843547120
Manufacturer's product description
Raimund Gregorious - Mundus, as his students affectionately call him - is a predictable character. A bookish Latin professor, well-respected, perhaps a little boring.
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