# Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (Romans Durs)

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- Authors: [Georges Simenon](https://www.bookquiver.com/georges-simenon)
- Publisher: picador
- ISBN: 978-12-5042-591-1
- Published: 2026-06-23
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.