As Trains Pass by: Katinka

By Herman Bang

Book Overview

Katinka is the stationmaster's wife in a sleepy Danish provincial town and her domestic languor is disrupted by the arrival of Huus, the new foreman on a nearby farm. Unlike her boorish husband Huus is attentive and sensitive and despite her best efforts Katinka falls in love with him. Her whole life is turned upside down by an intense passion she had never expected to experience and which has unforeseen consequences. Katinka is another of Herman Bang's tragic heroines.
In its impressionistic almost cinematic style it is a novel ahead of its time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1909232920
• ISBN13: 9781909232921
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Dedalus
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

haunting

Spare and glancing yet heart-breaking. One of those novels that leave you reeling for a few days. Bang was able convey in a few sentences what it took his contemporaries densely written chapters to get at. When I ordered my copy several years ago, there were half a dozen Bang offerings; now we're down to two. Not a good sign.