The Night in Lisbon
  • Published: 22 May 1998
  • ISBN: 9780449912430
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $34.99

The Night in Lisbon

A Novel

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Reissued in a gorgeous new trade paperback package and for the first time in eBook, this novel by the reknowned author of World War I masterpiece All Quiet on the Western Front will be published right on time to celebrate the centennial of WWI in 2014.

History and fate collide as the Nazis rise to power in The Night in Lisbon, a classic tale of survival from the renowned author of All Quiet on the Western Front.
 
With the world slowly sliding into war, it is crucial that enemies of the Reich flee Europe at once. But so many routes are closed, and so much money is needed. Then one night in Lisbon, as a poor young refugee gazes hungrily at a boat bound for America, a stranger approaches him with two tickets and a story to tell.
 
It is a harrowing tale of bravery and butchery, daring and death, in which the price of love is beyond measure and the legacy of evil is infinite. As the refugee listens spellbound to the desperate teller, in a matter of hours the two form a unique and unshakable bond—one that will last all their lives.
 
“The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure.”—The New York Times Book Review
  • Published: 22 May 1998
  • ISBN: 9780449912430
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $34.99
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About the author

Erich Maria Remarque

Erich Maria Remarque was a German author and veteran of the First World War. He was born 1898 in Osnabrück, Germany. At the age of 18 he was conscripted into the German army. During his service he was wounded by shrapnel in the left leg, right arm and neck. Following the war he worked as a primary school teacher, and later as a librarian, a journalist and a technical writer.
Among Remarque’s published novels were All Quiet on the Western Front, The Road Back, Three Comrades and Arch of Triumph. His works were publicly burned by the Nazi German government, and in 1947 he and his first wife became naturalised citizens of the United States. Four years earlier, his sister had been executed at the behest of Hitler’s ‘People’s Court’.

Remarque adapted the book Ten Days to Die, about Hitler’s final days, as a screenplay, and he also wrote for the stage. His last novel was The Night in Lisbon, published in 1962. During his lifetime Remarque married twice and had love affairs with the actresses Hedy Lamarr, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo.

Also by Erich Maria Remarque

The Way Back
The Promised Land
Spark of Life
Flotsam
Shadows in Paradise
All Quiet on the Western Front
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Praise for The Night in Lisbon

Praise for All Quiet on the Western Front

  • "All Quiet on the Western Front is unquestionably the best story of the World War."--H. L. Mencken
  • "The greatest book about the war that I have ever seen."--Christopher Morley
  • "The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably the first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure."--The New York Times Book Review