The Venice Train
Georges Simenon author Ros Schwartz translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:2nd Jun '22
Should be back in stock very soon
'There were some weeks that were painful, nerve-racking. At the office or at home, in the middle of a meal, he would suddenly find his forehead bathed in sweat, a tightness in his chest, and at those times, feeling everyone's eyes on him was unbearable.'
During a chance meeting on the train from Venice to Paris, a stranger asks Justin Calmar to deliver a briefcase for him to an address in Switzerland. Soon this ordinary family man will become hopelessly, fatally, ensnared in a world of guilt, lies and paranoia.
Originally published in 1965, shortly after Simenon moved into the new home he had built in Épalinges, Switzerland, this chilling novel is a powerful exploration of the fragility of the human psyche.
ISBN: 9780241544228
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 18mm
Weight: 140g
176 pages