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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.
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Night train to Lisbon, Pascal Mercier, Barbara Harshav
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- Pubblicato
- 2009
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- Titolo
- Night train to Lisbon
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Pascal Mercier, Barbara Harshav
- Editore
- Atlantic Books
- Pubblicato
- 2009
- Formato
- In brossura
- ISBN10
- 1843547139
- ISBN13
- 9781843547136
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Prosa storica, Tematica filosofica, Amore, Letteratura tedesca, Vita, Adattato in un film, Viaggio, Sui libri, Svizzera, Indagine, Insegnante,professori, Ricerca di se stessi, Medici, Libri più venduti, Resistenza, Portogallo, Letteratura svizzera, Dittatura, Piano, Lisbona
- Prima pubblicazione
- 2004
- Titolo originale
- Nachtzug nach Lissabon
- Valutazione
- 3,85 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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.