{"product_id":"9781250425911","title":"Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (Romans Durs)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA private confession leads an ordinary Dutchman to abandon his family for a life on the run in Georges Simenon's existentialist masterpiece.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKees 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKees 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Watched the Trains Go By\u003c\/i\u003e is a haunting existentialist masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55732011663736,"sku":"9781250425911","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781250425911.jpg?v=1794266241","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781250425911","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}