The Man Who Watched The Trains Go By
Hardworking Dutch family man Kees Popinga loses his money when the shipping firm he works for collapses. Something snaps and from the shell of a modern citizen emerges a calculating paranoiac, capable of random acts of violence - even murder.
Hardworking Dutch family man Kees Popinga loses his money when the shipping firm he works for collapses. Something snaps and from the shell of a modern citizen emerges a calculating paranoiac, capable of random acts of violence - even murder.
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ISBN:
9780141187679 (0141187670)
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Romance,
20th Century,
Mystery,
Thriller,
Crime,
Noir,
France,
Belgian
Those who leave by night- trains leave for ever - Kees Popinga from The Man Who Watched The Trains Go ByKees Popinga is a dull man who lives in a well-ordered existence, where everything including his wife is admirably above-board,"one might have said of her..that she was the ' best make' of Dutch w...
Extremely readable. Simenon infects the reader with a sort of morbid curiousity.
16 years ago
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