by Pascal Mercier · btb Taschenbuch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783442746248
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«Nachtzug nach Lissabon» is the novel by Pascal Mercier, published by btb Taschenbuch in paperback (495 pages, in German).
A high-school teacher abandons his classroom mid-lesson and takes a night train to Lisbon to follow the trail of a mysterious writer. Through that man's notebooks and the memories of those who knew him, the novel delves into questions of identity, memory and the meaning of life.
The novel was originally published in 2004; this edition is from 2013. It received the Grinzane Cavour Prize for Foreign Fiction in 2007.
For readers of literary and philosophical fiction, interested in stories of inner journey and in Lisbon under the Salazar regime.
Peter Bieri, better known by his pseudonym, Pascal Mercier, was a Swiss writer and philosopher.
