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The Man Who Watched the Trains Go by (Romans Durs)

The Man Who Watched the Trains Go by (Romans Durs)

Simenon, Georges
Reynolds, Siân

Paperback

Series: Romans Durs

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 1250425913
ISBN13: 9781250425911
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Jun 23 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.61 Width: 4.91 Depth: 7.41
Language: English

A private confession leads an ordinary Dutchman to abandon his family for a life on the run in Georges Simenon's existentialist masterpiece.

Kees Popinga has always played by society's rules. A dutiful husband and father, he owns a house in a nice neighborhood and holds down a responsible job in the shipping industry. Fantasies of escape, of rebellion, are kept carefully contained--until the night Kees's boss makes a private confession. Having recklessly bankrupted the firm, he plans to fake his own death.

Kees is not only shocked; he's exhilarated. Abandoning his home and family, he is soon a violent fugitive, wanted by police in Amsterdam and Paris. Has he gone insane, or was his compliant former self a masquerade? Infused with Georges Simenon's gift for moral complexity, The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By is a haunting existentialist masterpiece.

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