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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.
The Venice Train - Georges Simenon’s 1965 tale of mystery and suspense wherein a man's life is transformed forever by a chance meeting with a stranger on a train on route from Venice to Paris could be studied as a major work of existentialism focusing on themes of alienation, anxiety and absurdity.
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The Train by Georges Simenon. Publication date 1967-01-01 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language
Jul 12, 2011 · The Train (Neversink) Kindle Edition. by Georges Simenon (Author), Robert Baldick (Translator) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.2 237 ratings. See all formats and editions. Against all expectations Marcel Féron has made a “normal” life in a bucolic French suburb in the Ardennes.
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In THE TRAIN, Simenon follows Marcel in 1940, after he, his wife, and daughter are evacuated from their village following the Nazi invasion in France. Almost immediately, the family divides and Marcel, shuttling toward the south of France in a crowded boxcar, gradually assembles a new and genuine emotional life that centers on Anna, another ...
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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...
One of Georges Simenon's most persuasive and moving novels, THE TRAIN introduces us to Marcel, a timid young man, full of self-doubt, who is catapulted into the pandemonium of war. When the Germans invade Belgium, he joins the stampede for trains running south.
