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| The Night in Lisbon | 
 enlarge | Author: Erich Maria Remarque
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
List Price: $19.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 240301
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 244
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 6.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0449912434
Dewey Decimal Number: 833.912
EAN: 9780449912430
ASIN: 0449912434
Publication Date: June 9, 1998
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Condition: Older 1964 Creast books mass market paperback edition. No writing on any of the pages. The binding is tight. Overall great reading copy. I will ship this within 24 hours and include delivery confirmation. I can include a gift note if you request.
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THE NIGHT IN LISBON
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 refugee gazes hungrily at the boat enroute to America, a man approaches him with two tickets and a story to tell.
It is a harrowing tale of bravery and butchery, daring and death, where the price of love is beyond measure, and the legacy of evil is infinite. And as the young man 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. . . .
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 Better than you are told December 16, 2008
For some reason, Erich Maria Remarque and Somerset Maugham have found themselves ranked in the second tier of 20th Century English Language Novelists. "The Night in Lisbon," which is not his greatest novel, is far better than Hemingway's lesser works. Remarque was a remarkably consistent writer of quality, thought-provoking literature. Two or three of his books should always be required high school and college reading. I highly recommend this book and I can't imagine anyone, who likes quality fiction, who would be disappointed.
 Somewhat overwrought and somewhat dated August 18, 2008
The story is a compelling one, but the telling is less so.
First the story: The narrator, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Europe, is in Lisbon seeking passage on a ship to America for himself and his wife. He meets another refugee who, inexplicably but miraculously, offers him two tickets on the ship (and, later, passports and visas) on the condition that the narrator listen to his tale during the night before the ship sails. So the second refugee, "Schwarz", relates in detail the story of sneaking back to his hometown in Nazi Germany (specifically, Osnabruck, which was Remarque's hometown) from exile, presumably for some political offense rather than ethnicity, finding his wife Helen, and then escaping Germany with her and going through numerous travails in trying to get to America, via Switzerland, then Paris, then southern France, and finally through Spain to Lisbon. Through it all, the relationship/marriage of Schwarz and Helen is continually tested and must continually evolve in order to survive. The quest for America and marital harmony ends abruptly in Lisbon; therefore Schwarz relinquishes his tickets to the anonymous narrator.
Now, the problems with the telling and with the novel: The narrative structure of a detailed first-person tale (Schwarz's) within another first-person tale (that of the anonymous narrator) is not handled very deftly; it is overly cumbersome and, to the contemporary reader, unrealistic and outdated. There is far too much melodrama and heavy-handed writing, particularly in the portrayal and condemnation of the Nazis. Schwarz himself is overwrought, much too prone to half-baked, sentimental, romantic philosophy -- a 20th-Century "Young Werther". And Helen is so fraught with neuroses that she too is an unlikely heroine.
When I read "All Quiet on the Western Front", I found it remarkably modern, although some of its anti-war themes are now commonplace. THE NIGHT IN LISBON, though written over thirty years later, seems strangely antiquated. In any event, it does not begin to measure up to the work that made Remarque famous.
 Beautiful November 16, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I couldn't stop reading! This book evokes a lot of emotions and is expertly written. It has adventure, intrique, suspense--even a nasty brother-in-law. I would defintely recommend it.
wasn't sure what to expect April 10, 2006
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm not sure what I was expecting from the author after reading "All Quiet...."
1 book only! August 29, 2005
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Being stranded on a deserted island with only 1 book? That would be the 1! It is a book about life: Love, death, grief and loss, great emotions! Isn't that what life is about?
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