Night Train to Lisbon
by Pascal Mercier · first published 2007
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Former Latin teacher Raimund Gregorius boards the night train to Lisbon, carrying with him a book by Amadeu de Prado, with whose work he becomes obsessed, and journeys all over the city in search of the truth about the author.
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Night train to lisbon - Pascal Mercier It's about a professor who quits his job and his country to explore the life of an author he just discovered.
on “Ask HN: Best book you read in 2011” ↗…would be more like 0.5 to 1 per week. I find for something with a narrative structure, in a normal book format, I expect to spend about 1 minute per page -- very approximately. For example, I bought "Night Train To Lisbon" at 2AM last Saturday night to read as I was falling asleep, and I finished it around 2AM last Sunday. At 470 pages, ~ 8 hours of reading, not that different than a normal work day worth of "effort" on…
on “YC’s Summer Reading” ↗