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future doctor said. I would not live ta a world without cathedrals, 1 need the luster of their windows, their cool stillness, their imperious silence. I need the deluge of the organ and the sacred devotion of praying people. I need the holiness of words, the grandeur of great poetry, (page 171) In “Night Train to Lisbon,'* Merrier expresses the anxieties and issues of a long and yet unfinished life with a grandeur of words.
This is a novel, and its plot engages the reader with suspense. I won't divulge too much of the action. But l will say that we adults also benefit from some challenging reading that causes us to think and reflect, preferably with words carefully chosen with skill and intelligence arranged in a book that has received some acclaim. This European bestseller presses the reader to examine his or her own life, the unthinking habits and the old dreams unrealized. I encourage all thoughtful readers to select “Night Train to Lisbon'* as the last selection on their late summer reading list.
“Night Train to Lisbon** by Pascal Mercier. 2004; translated from the German by Barbara Harshav, 200b; Grove Press, New York.
Kathleen Grow is heutl of sc hoot at Wakefield Country Pay School in Ftmt Hill.
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