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Night train to Lisbon
By Mercier, Pascal & Harshav, Barbara
- ISBN
- 978-0-80211-858-5
- Publisher
- New York : Grove Press, c2008.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on January 15, 2008
Raimund Gregorius, a Swiss professor of classical languages, is crossing a rainy bridge in Bern when a mysterious woman writes a phone number on his forehead and utters a single word in Portuguese. Later that day, he wanders into a bookstore and finds himself drawn to a Portuguese book titled A Goldsmith of Words, self-published in Lisbon 30 years earlier. These unexplained and seemingly unrelated events conspire to tear...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
