The Bernese Latin teacher Raimund Gregorius (Jeremy Irons) one morning encounters a woman standing on the Kirchenfeld Bridge. He narrowly prevents her from jumping and brings her with him to the ...

A novel about breaking routines and just letting go. But somehow it doesn't work. If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using ...

In Swiss novelist Mercier's U.S. debut, Raimund Gregorius is a gifted but dull 57-year-old high school classical languages teacher in Switzerland. After a chance meeting with a Portuguese woman in the ...

Raimund Gregorius, a Swiss teacher, abandons his lessons and buttoned-down life to embark on a thrilling adventure that will take him on a journey to the very heart of himself.

Pascal Mercier. Grove. 496 pages. $25. "This novel taps into some of the oldest veins of story, the primal ones of night journeys, of being stuck in place, yet adrift, and confused about life's ...