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Sin dall’infanzia, l’inglese Simon Leyland è affascinato dalla parola. A dispetto dei suoi genitori, una volta adulto diventa un traduttore e persegue con determinazione il suo sogno: imparare tutte le lingue parlate nel Mediterraneo. Da Londra si trasferisce con la moglie Livia a Trieste, dove lei ha ereditato una casa editrice. In questa città di importanti letterati, crogiolo di lingue e culture, l’uomo crede di aver trovato il luogo ideale per il suo lavoro, finché una diagnosi medica inaspettata lo porta a cambiare rotta ancora una volta.

Ein Mann lässt sein Leben hinter sich und setzt sich in den Zug nach Lissabon. Im Gepäck: das Buch des Portugiesen Amadeu de Prado, dessen Reflexionen den Lateinlehrer Raimund Gregorius nicht mehr loslassen...

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.

A tender, impassioned and unforgettable story of a father's love and a daughter's ambition in the wake of devastating tragedy. It all starts with the death of Martijn van Vliet's wife. His grief-stricken young daughter, Lea, cuts herself off from the world, lost in the darkness of grief. Then she hears the unfamiliar sound of a violin playing in the hall of a train station, and she is brought back to life. Transfixed by a busker playing Bach, Lea emerges from her mourning, vowing to learn the instrument.