1848873174 ![Night train to lisbon [electronic resource]. Pascal Mercier.](/o/arena-portlet/portletResources?resource=resourceCover&portalSiteId=78323388&recordId=1848873174&agencyName=AUKGUERNSEY&width=0&height=0)
eBook Night train to lisbon [electronic resource]. Pascal Mercier.
Publication year: 2009
Language: English
Media type eBook
Category: Fiction
Resource type: Electronic material
ISBN: 9781848873179 (electronic bk)
Extent: 1 online resource
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A huge international bestseller, with over 2 million copies sold worldwide, Night Train to Lisbon is an utterly compelling novel about one man's escape from a humdrum life in search of passion and spontaneity. 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 in the middle of giving a lesson, his uncharacteristic impulsiveness surprises him as much as his students. This break from his usually predictable routine is driven by two chance encounters that morning on his way to work - the first with a mysterious Portuguese woman, and the second with 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 som
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