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The Train

By Georges Simenon
Translated by Robert Baldick

By Georges Simenon
Translated by Robert Baldick

By Georges Simenon
Translated by Robert Baldick

By Georges Simenon
Translated by Robert Baldick

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Jul 12, 2011 | ISBN 9781935554738

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    About The Train

    Against all expectations Marcel Féron has made a “normal” 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 “Fate” 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 “neither Belgian nor German,” and who “seemed foreign to everything around her.” As the mystery of Anna’s identity is gradually revealed, Marcel leaps from the heights of an exhilarating freedom to the depths of a terrifying responsibility—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 “the novel his admirers had been expecting all along from Simenon.” Until The Train, she wrote, the dazzlingly prolific novelist had been “a master without a masterpiece.”

    About The Train

    Against all expectations Marcel Féron has made a “normal” 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 “Fate” 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 “neither Belgian nor German,” and who “seemed foreign to everything around her.” As the mystery of Anna’s identity is gradually revealed, Marcel leaps from the heights of an exhilarating freedom to the depths of a terrifying responsibility—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 “the novel his admirers had been expecting all along from Simenon.” Until The Train, she wrote, the dazzlingly prolific novelist had been “a master without a masterpiece.”

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Suspense & Thriller | Military Fiction

    Paperback | $14.00
    Published by Melville House
    Jul 19, 2011 | 144 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9781935554462

    Category: Literary Fiction | Suspense & Thriller | Military Fiction

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Melville House
    Jul 12, 2011 | 144 Pages | ISBN 9781935554738

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    Praise

    “He is the greatest of all . . . the truest novelist we have in literature.”
    —André Gide

    Praise for The Train

    “There is no false note, not one word or sigh or smile which strikes me as anything but unavoidable. This is not a writer’s romancing story of a little man caught in the war; it is the unknown history of many little men in that vast war.”  
    —New York Times Book Review

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