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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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- Année de publication
- 2009
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- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Pascal Mercier, Barbara Harshav
- Éditeur
- Atlantic Books
- Publié
- 2009
- Format
- souple
- ISBN10
- 1843547139
- ISBN13
- 9781843547136
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Thématique philosophique, Romans historiques, Amour, Littérature allemande, Vie, Adapté au cinéma, Sur les livres, Voyage, Suisse, Enquête, Enseignante, professeurs, Médecins, Recherche de soi, Meilleures ventes, Résistance, rébellion, Portugal, Littérature suisse, Dictature, Plan, Lisbonne
- Première publication
- 2004
- Titre original
- Nachtzug nach Lissabon
- Évaluation
- 3,85 sur 5
- Description
- 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.