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Night Train to Lisbon

By: Pascal Mercier
Narrated by: Sean Barrett
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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.

©2004 Carl Hanser Verlag Muenchen Wien 2004 (P)2008 WF Howes Ltd
Contemporary Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Portugal
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A beautiful examination of one man’s discovery of his raison d’être, set in the context of Portugal and the history of the Salazar dictatorship. The characters are vividly and three dimensionally drawn and Sean Barrett’s narration is, as ever, flawless.

Philosophical and rewarding.

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