Night train to Lisbon
By: Pascal Mercier ; translated from the German by Barbara Harshav.
Contributors: Harshav, Barbara, 1940-
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780802118585
Subjects: Teachers -- Fiction; Teachers -- Travel -- Europe -- Fiction; Self-realization -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Work titles: Nachtzug nach Lissabon.
Description: Former Latin teacher Raimund Gegorius boards the night train to Lisbon, carrying with him a book by Amadeu de Prado, with whose work he becomes obsessed, and journeys all over the city in search of the truth about the author.
Notes: "First published in the German language in 2004 by Carl Hanser Verlag"--T.p. verso.