Night Train to Lisbon

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

Pascal Mercier nació en Berna en 1944. Estudió Filosofía, Filología Inglesa y Clásica e Indología en Londres y Heidelberg, donde se doctoró en 1971. A partir de 1993 ocupó una cátedra en la Universidad Libre de Berlín, donde realizó estudios sobre la filosofía de la mente, del conocimiento y de la lengua. En 2004 publica Tren nocturno a Lisboa con gran éxito.