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Essentially it is the story of an academic raimund gregorius who, on a whim, gives up his lecturing post in bern and takes the train to lisbon. Prado is a serious thinker whose active mind becomes evident in a series of his notes. Only when you are lost can you truly find yourself. Night train to lisbon audiobook free night train to. Praise for night train to lisbon one of the most thoughtful and entertaining novels to come out of europe in a decade. It is an introspective, self examining, philosophical soul searching journal. Rich, dense, starspangle night train to lisbon is about ends and means, language and loneliness, betrayal and complicity, intimacy and imagination, vanity and forgiveness.
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