Night Train to Lisbon

The bestselling novel of love and sacrifice under fascist rule, and "a treat for the mind. One of the best books I have read in a long time" (Isabel Allende). Raimund Gregorius, a professor of dead languages at a Swiss secondary school, lives a life governed by routine. Then, an enigmatic Portuguese woman stirs his interest in an obscure, and mind-expanding book of philosophy that opens the possibility of changing Raimund''s existence. That same night, he takes the train to Lisbon to research the book''s phantom author, Amadeu de Prado, a renowned physician whose principles led him to confront Salazar''s dictatorship. Raimund, now obsessed with unlocking the mystery behind the man, is determined to meet all those on whom Prado left an indelible mark. Among them: his eighty-year-old sister, who maintains her brother''s house as if it were a museum; an elderly cleric and torture survivor confined to a nursing home; and Prado''s childhood friend and eventual partner in the Resistance.