The Night In Lisbon

A hardcover copy in very good condition. Pages are tight and unmarked throughout. Blue cloth boards with bright gilt lettering to the spine. No dust jacket. The Night in Lisbon by Erich Maria Remarque, translated by Ralph Manheim. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964. First edition. First published in German as Die Nacht von Lissabon, 1962. Set in wartime Lisbon, a crucial escape point for refugees fleeing Nazi Europe, the novel follows a German exile who receives passage to America in exchange for listening to a stranger's life story through the night. Remarque is best known for All Quiet on the Western Front. Translated by Ralph Manheim, one of the foremost literary translators of the twentieth century, winner of the National Book Award and a MacArthur Fellowship