Georges Simenon,Robert Baldick
Against all expectations Marcel FerÃ³n 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 decision. ,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€
Fiction,Historical,Historical Fiction,War,World War II,Cultural,France,Mystery,Novels,War,Classics,Historical,Literary Fiction
The Train