He interviews family and friends, and former teachers, even camping out in the authorвЂ™s abandoned school building.

In the story, he intersperses many deep passages from the fictitious book. (The author, who writes in German, is Swiss and has been a philosophy professor.) The narrator goes back to retrace the life of the Portuguese author and finds he is deceased. He quits his dull job of many years (in the same school he attended as a boy) and hops a train to Lisbon even though he doesnвЂ™t even speak Portuguese. She is Portuguese and he then begins reading a work by a Portuguese author and becomes obsessed with finding out about the author. One day he stops a despondent young woman from jumping off a bridge. So this is novel of male mi A teacher of dead languages (Latin, Greek) at a Swiss prep school has no real friends or even much of a life to speak of. Gradually, the picture of an extraordinary man emerges-a doctor and poet who rebelled against SalazarвЂ™s dictatorship.moreДЄ teacher of dead languages (Latin, Greek) at a Swiss prep school has no real friends or even much of a life to speak of. His investigations lead him all over the city of Lisbon, as he speaks to those who were entangled in PradoвЂ™s life. Gregorius becomes obsessed by what he reads and restlessly struggles to comprehend the life of the author.

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. 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. A major hit in Germany that went on to become one of EuropeвЂ™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. A major hit in Germany that went on to become one of EuropeвЂ™s biggest literary blockbusters in the last five years, Night Train to Lisbon is an astonishing novel, a compelling exploration of consciousness 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 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.

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