The Train (Neversink)

The Train (Neversink)

Against all expectations Marcel FeÌron has made a â€œnormalâ€ 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 â€œFateâ€ 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 â€œneither Belgian nor German,â€ and who â€œseemed foreign to everything around her.â€ As the mystery of Annaâ€™s identity is gradually revealed, Marcel leaps from the heights of an exhilarating freedom to the depths of a terrifying responsibilityâ€”one that will lead him to a blood-chilling choice.

When it first appeared in English in 1964, British novelist and critic Brigid Brophy declared The Train to be â€œthe novel his admirers had been expecting all along from Simenon.â€ Until The Train, she wrote, the dazzlingly prolific novelist had been â€œa master without a masterpiece.â€
Country USA
Brand Melville House
Manufacturer Melville House
Binding Paperback
Color Brown
ReleaseDate 2011-07-19
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781935554462

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