Drie kamers op manhattan

Drie kamers op Manhattan, dat in 1946 werd geschreven, is het eerste boek van Simenon dat in Amerika speelt. Misschien zijn daarom de voornaamste personen in deze roman geen echte Amerikanen, maar nog niet gewortelde immigranten uit Europa, die om welke reden dan ook hun verleden ontvluchten en een nieuw bestaan proberen te vinden in het harde New Yorkse leven.

One of his most erotic and emotionally charged stories' The Times Two people who didn't know each other and who had come together by a miracle in the great city, and who now clung desperately to each other, as if already they felt a chilly solitude settling in. A divorced actor and a lonely woman, both adrift in New York, meet by chance in an all-night diner. It is the start of something, though neither is sure what. As they move through neon-lit streets, bars, rented rooms and cheap motels, these two lost souls struggle to understand what it is that has brought them, in spite of themselves, inexorably together.