The 6:41 to Paris
By: Jean-Philippe Blondel ; translated by Alison Anderson
Contributors: Anderson, Alison, translator
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9781939931269
Subjects: Interpersonal relations; Man-woman relationships; Railroad travel; Fiction
Other titles: Six forty-one to Paris
Work titles: 06 H 41
Description: Cécile, a stylish forty-seven-year-old, has spent the weekend visiting her parents in a provincial town southeast of Paris. By early Monday morning, she's exhausted. These trips back home are always stressful and she settles into a train compartment with an empty seat beside her. But it's soon occupied by a man she instantly recognizes: Philippe Leduc, with whom she had a passionate affair that ended in her brutal humiliation thirty years ago. In the fraught hour and a half that ensues, their express train hurtles towards the French capital. Cécile and Philippe undertake their own face to face journey--In silence? What could they possibly say to one another?--with the reader gaining entrée to the most private of thoughts. This is a psychological thriller about past romance, with all its pain and promise.
Notes: Translation from French of: 06h41.