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Night train to lisbon kindle edition by mercier, pascal, harshav. The main characters of this fiction, philosophy story are raimund gregorius. Roger albert pascal mercier, a pseudonym for swiss novelist and philosopher peter bieri, published night train to lisbon in 2004. A major hit in germany that spent 140 weeks on the bestseller list and went on to become one of europes biggest literary blockbusters in the last five years, night train to lisbon now introduces to the englishlanguage world the critically acclaimed swiss author pascal mercier.
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