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Grove Press
December 2007
On Sale: December 21, 2007
496 pages
ISBN: 0802118585
EAN: 9780802118585
Hardcover
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Fiction
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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