Night Train to Lisbon

by Peter Bieri · first published 2004

Night Train to Lisbon is a philosophical novel by Swiss writer Pascal Mercier. It recounts the travels of Swiss Classics instructor Raimund Gregorius as he explores the life of Amadeu de Prado, a Portuguese doctor, during António de Oliveira Salazar's right-wing dictatorship in Portugal. Prado is a serious thinker whose active mind becomes evident in a series of his notes collected and read by Gregorius. The book was originally published in German as Nachtzug nach Lissabon in 2004 and was first published in English in 2008.

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Original language:

German

Year page:

2004