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 violence. This chilling portrayal of a man who breaks from society and goes on the run asks who we are,and what we are capable of.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241258552Number of pages: 256Weight: 191 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 15 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'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 unequaled at making us look inside,though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories'- Guardian
'Compelling... Simenon shows how close the deranged mind is to the ordinary mind'- Financial Times
Georges Simenon
Staggeringly prolific and stylistically revolutionary,French author Georges Simenon is the creator of Inspector Maigret and one of the most significant crime writers in literary history.
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