Showing results for "Train" in Contemporary Fiction

Raimund Gregorious - Mundus, as his students affectionately call him - is a predictable character. A bookish Latin professor, well-respected but perhaps a little boring. One stormy morning, he encounters a beautiful, distraught Portuguese woman in a red leather coat... Later that day Raimund will realise: that moment changed everything. All of a sudden, nothing in his life feels right. His restlessness is further fuelled when he finds a book by a little-known Portuguese writer, Amadeo de Prado.

Dans le train qui relie Paris à Hendaye, quatre femmes voyagent dans le même carré famille. Éliane, 82 ans, est une habituée. Depuis que l'amour de sa vie est parti, elle fait ce trajet une à deux fois par mois pour tromper sa solitude. En face d'elle, Lola, une adolescente à fleur de...