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Original Title:	Nachtzug nach Lissabon
ISBN:	0802118585 (ISBN13: 9780802118585)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Raimund Gregorius
Literary Awards:	Premio Grinzane Cavour for Narrativa Straniera (2007)

Night Train to Lisbon Hardcover | Pages: 496 pages

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A huge international best seller, this ambitious novel plumbs the depths of our shared humanity to offer up a breathtaking insight into life, love, and literature itself. A major hit in Germany that went on to become one of Europe’s biggest literary blockbusters in the last five years, Night Train to Lisbon is an astonishing novel, a compelling exploration of consciousness, the possibility of truly understanding another person, and the ability of language to define our very selves. Raimund Gregorius is a Latin teacher at a Swiss college who one day—after a chance encounter with a mysterious Portuguese woman—abandons his old life to start a new one. He takes the night train to Lisbon and carries with him a book by Amadeu de Prado, a (fictional) Portuguese doctor and essayist whose writings explore the ideas of loneliness, mortality, death, friendship, love, and loyalty. Gregorius becomes obsessed by what he reads and restlessly struggles to comprehend the life of the author. His investigations lead him all over the city of Lisbon, as he speaks to those who were entangled in Prado’s life. Gradually, the picture of an extraordinary man emerges—a doctor and poet who rebelled against Salazar’s dictatorship.

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Title	:	Night Train to Lisbon
Author	:	Pascal Mercier
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 496 pages
Published	:	December 21st 2007 by Grove Press (first published 2004)
Categories	:	Fiction. Philosophy. Cultural. Portugal. Literature

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Why would you give me this book to read? Why? You didnt like it. At the time I was too pleased to have a present to care. You could have put anything in my hands and Id have been delighted. A pen, a purl, a plum But this? Pah!     At the time, I thought it might still be a good story though. It looked to be a quiet, interior journey. Our man, Gregorius, has a thing for words. I can relate. But not in the way I relate at the beginning of Disneys Beauty and the Beast. Gregorius is no Belle.



If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.Airing Aphorisms: Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier(Original Review, December 21st 2007)NB: Read in German.Not every difficult book is by definition a good one - not every challenge is worth taking.A good writer can do both, like Ishiguro. Write a book for the mainstream readers, to pick them up where they stand and travel with them. Or write a book so obscure that only very few will even want to go on that journey, those books

One afternoon the most reliable of the professors at a Bern university walks out on his class. This is the result of a chance encounter the same morning. The same Raimund Gregorious - Mundus - also bought a book by an uknown Portuguese aristocrat, in a language he didn't know. He travels to Lisbon to try to find out more about the strange author and falls into the past, into a web of old family expectations. The book is an exploration on how to live life to the fullest, of language, of the

This book took me a long, long time to read, but I am glad I stuck with it. A very philosophical book -- it asks the reader to imagine what would happen if you questioned everything about your life and started a new existence.The main character in this book does exactly that, using a book written by a Portuguese doctor to as a tool for self-discovery. If you want to be prompted to think more deeply about life, who you truly are, and about human nature in general, read this book.

My initial view of Night Train to Lisbon is that the reader is almost forced to follow the pattern of the novel's main character, Raimund Gregorius, attempting to explicate a book much like Raimund did when trying to comprehend the writings of a Portuguese doctor, Amadeu de Prado. Dr. Prado had been active in the resistance against Salazar the Portuguese dictator & Prado's words seized Raimund's imagination, causing him to suddenly flee his secure position as a teacher of classics & to

When, on a whim, I threw everything away to wander thousands of miles from anything I've ever known, I first went to Lisbon because of this book. That was last September, and by November I had traipsed through neighboring Spain and south into Africa, though, I've since been back to the city of Lisbon, and furthermore to this book. If you are not, at least in some part, a thinker, if philosophy ebbs away at your patience, if the sight of pages mostly barren of dialogue make you panic, this book