"Endstation Sehnsucht" in the Danish province of Bang, newly translated. There, where telegraph wires hum in the wind and where there are only departures, but hardly ever arrivals, lies the dead angle of longing. The people who live here are not destined for new beginnings; their dreams remain, quite literally, on the sidelines. In this book, Herman Bang portrays fates in the Danish nowhere with quiet melancholy. Katinka leads a modest existence. Free from material worries and also from exaggerated expectations, she lives with her husband, a station master, in the flat countryside. Occasionally, she sits on the bench in front of the house, letting her gaze wander with a sense of foreboding. She knows all too well that true life rushes past her like the steam train that passes the provincial station with a roar day after day. And as the clouds of smoke disperse...