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The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By
Georges Simenon
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Description for The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By
Paperback. Translator(s): Reynolds, Sian. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 196.
A brilliant new translation of one of Simenon's best loved masterpieces.
'A certain furtive, almost shameful emotion ... disturbed him whenever he saw a train go by, a night train especially, its blinds drawn down on the mystery of its passengers'
Kees Popinga is a respectable Dutch citizen and family man. Then he discovers that his boss has bankrupted the shipping firm he works for - and something snaps. Kees used to watch the trains go by to exciting destinations. Now, on some dark impulse, he boards one at random, and begins a new life of recklessness and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241258552
SKU
V9780241258552
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99-30
About Georges Simenon
Georges Simenon (Author) Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. He is best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret novels and his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the ... Read more
Reviews for The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By
Fierce, bleak and compellingly written . . . with pitiless landscapes of hopeless longing, random cruelty and galloping fate warmed only by the twilit lyricism of doomed desire. These are novels of eye-opening, spine-tingling control and intensity.
Boyd Tonkin
The Independent
One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was ... Read more
Boyd Tonkin
The Independent
One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was ... Read more