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Jan 05, 2014Sanrin rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Started out interesting: a staid professor of ancient languages at a university in Switzerland has a chance encounter with a mysterious Portuguese woman, and abruptly leaves his predictable life to take a night train to Lisbon. Written by a philosophy professor, the story seemed to gradually degrade into a plot of ideas, where characters were less complex personalities and more intellectual or emotional stimuli for the main character. I abandoned the book after getting about 1/3 of the way through it.