Night Train to Lisbon

"When, one afternoon, mild-mannered, middle-aged Classics scholar Raimund Gregorius walks out of his class while in the middle of giving a lesson, his impulsiveness surprises him as much as it does his students. This break from his usually predictable routine is inspired by two chance encounters earlier that morning - the first with a mysterious Portuguese woman, and the second with a book discovered in a forgotten corner of an old bookshop, containing the thoughts of an enigmatic Portuguese aristocrat. With the book as his talisman, Mundus finds himself boarding the night train to Lisbon: who was this man whose words both haunt and compel him?"

'One of the great European novels of the past few years.'
Page des Libraires

'Pascal Mercier's Night Train to Lisbon is a sensation. The best book of the last ten years. .. A novel of incredible clarity and beauty.'
Bücher