A huge international best seller, this ambitious novel plumbs the depths of our shared humanity to offer up a breathtaking insight into life, love, and literature itself. A major hit in Germany that went on to become one of Europe’s biggest literary blockbusters in the last five years, Night Train to Lisbon is an astonishing novel, a compelling exploration of consciousness, the possibility of truly understanding another person, and the ability of language to define our very selves. Raimund Gregorius is a Latin teacher at a Swiss college who one day—after a chance encounter with a mysterious Portuguese woman—abandons his old life to start a new one. He takes the night train to Lisbon and carries with him a book by Amadeu de Prado, a (fictional) Portuguese doctor and essayist whose writings explore the ideas of loneliness, mortality, death, friendship, love, and loyalty. Gregorius becomes obsessed by what he reads and restlessly struggles to comprehend the life of the author. His investigations lead him all over the city of Lisbon, as he speaks to those who were entangled in Prado’s life. Gradually, the picture of an extraordinary man emerges—a doctor and poet who rebelled against Salazar’s dictatorship.

帕斯卡·梅西耶，瑞士小说家、柏林自由大学哲学教授。他的代表作《里斯本夜车》，曾高踞德国畅销书榜140周，被翻译成二十余种文字，累计销量超过300万册。《里斯本夜车》还获得了欧洲重要文学奖项“意大利格林尚内卡渥文学奖最佳外文小说奖”，凭借这部小说，梅西耶荣获了“玛利亚·路易丝·卡叙尼文学奖”。