A huge international bestseller, with over 2 million copies sold worldwide, Night Train to Lisbon is an utterly compelling novel about one man's escape from a humdrum life in search of passion and spontaneity.

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'One of the best books I have read' Isabel Allende



'A rare reading pleasure' San Francisco Chronicle



'Pascal Mercier now takes his rightful place among our finest European novelists' Sunday Telegraph

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One afternoon, mild-mannered Classics scholar Raimund Gregorius walks out of his classroom with a dusty old book and one goal: he must find the book's author, Amadeu del Prado. He needs to meet the man whose words both haunt and compel him.

Boarding the night train to Lisbon, his investigations take him all over the city. Making unexpected friends, he gradually builds a picture of the extraordinary man who wrote this beloved book.

As Raimund discovers Amadeu, he begins to discover himself. Richly and beautifully told, this is a heart-rending story of all the paths not taken and lives not lived.

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Readers love Night Train to Lisbon



'Wow, what can I say that is going to do this book justice?'



'Utterly engrossing'



'Compelling'



'Mysterious and emotional'



'An amazing book that I know I will re-read'



Pascal Mercier was born in 1944 in Bern, Switzerland, and currently lives in Berlin, where he is a professor of philosophy. Night Train to Lisbon is his third novel, but his first that has been translated into English.



Night Train to Lisbon is a novel of ideas that reads like a thriller: an unsentimental journey that seems to transcend time and space. Every character, every scene, is evoked with an incomparable economy and a tragic nobility redolent of the mysterious hero, whom we only ever encounter through the eyes of others... Pascal Mercier now takes his rightful place among our finest European novelists.



If you liked Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind, you'll love international bestseller, Night Train to Lisbon.



A meditative novel that builds uncanny power...Night Train to Lisbon maintains a remarkable immediacy that makes for a rare reading pleasure.



One reads this book almost breathlessly, can hardly put it down... A handbook for the soul, mind and heart.