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Night Train to Lisbon

CD - unabridged
(14 CDs)
Product Number: CX224
Released: 01 Dec, 2008
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781407428994
Narrator(s): Sean Barrett
Publisher: W F Howes
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Description

Raimund Gregorious - Mundus, as his students affectionately call him - is a predictable character. A bookish Latin professor, well-respected but perhaps a little boring. One stormy morning, he encounters a beautiful, distraught Portuguese woman in a red leather coat... Later that day Raimund will realise: that moment changed everything. All of a sudden, nothing in his life feels right. His restlessness is further fuelled when he finds a book by a little-known Portuguese writer, Amadeo de Prado. The appearance of the mysterious woman, and Prado's prescient words, all seem to tell him the same thing: that he must leave everything behind. So, early the next morning, he packs a bag and boards the night train to Lisbon on a restless journey across Europe and deep within himself in the hope of discovering someone who will make him feel alive and connected to himself and the world once more.

Author(s): Pascal Mercier
Original Publish Date: 01 Dec, 2008

Professional reviews

"'One of the best books I have read in a long time.' ISABEL ALLENDE 'Night Train to Lisbon... seems to transcend time and space. Every character, every scene, is evoked with an incomparable economy and a tragic nobility redolent of the mysterious hero, whom we only ever encounter through the eyes of others.' THE TELEGRAPH"

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