by Pascal Mercier · Dom Quixote · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722029834
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«Comboio Nocturno para Lisboa» is the novel by Pascal Mercier, published by Dom Quixote in paperback (424 pages, in Portuguese).
Raimund Gregorius, a Latin and Greek teacher in Bern, saves a Portuguese woman from suicide and finds a book by the doctor and poet Amadeu de Prado, a resistance fighter against Salazarism. Fascinated, he travels by train to Lisbon to discover the life of that man and his own.
Pascal Mercier is the pseudonym of the philosopher Peter Bieri. «Comboio Nocturno para Lisboa» was published in German in 2004 as «Nachtzug nach Lissabon» and won the Grinzane Cavour Prize in 2007.
Recommended for readers of literary and contemporary fiction with an interest in philosophy, European history, and moral dilemmas.
Peter Bieri, better known by his pseudonym, Pascal Mercier, was a Swiss writer and philosopher.
