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Narrative feature

Homage to Simenon

18 September 2014

1:00 PM

18 September 2014

1:00 PM

One hundred years ago an 11-year-old boy called Georges Simenon was getting accustomed to the presence of the German army in Liège. Together with his mother and his younger brother he had been forced to hide in the cellar of their terraced house on the island of Outremeuse to avoid the firing squads.

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