The Train
of Georges Simenon, Robert Baldick
Description
Against all expectations Marcel FerĂłn has made a ânormalâ life in a bucolic French suburb in the Ardennes. But on May 10, 1940, as Nazi tanks approach, this timid, happy man must abandon his home and confront the âFateâ that he has secretly awaited. Separated from his pregnant wife and young daughter in the chaos of flight, he joins a freight car of refugees hurtling southward ahead of the pursuing invaders. There, he meets Anna, a sad-looking, dark- haired girl, whose accent is âneither Belgian nor German,â and who âseemed foreign to everything around her.â As the mystery of Annaâs identity is gradually revealed, Marcel leaps from the heights of an exhilarating freedom to the depths of a terrifying responsibilityâone that will lead him to a blood-chilling decision. When it first appeared in English in 1964, British novelist and critic Brigid Brophy declared The Train to be âthe novel his admirers had been expecting all along from Simenon.â Until The Train, she wrote, the dazzlingly prolific novelist had been âa master without a masterpiece.â
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 144 pages
- Publisher Melville House
- Publication Date July 19th 2011
- First Publication 11/06/61
- Language English
- ISBN 9781935554462
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Ardennes (Belgium)']
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