The Passenger (Paperback)

BERLIN, NOVEMBER 1938. With storm troopers battering against his door, Otto Silbermann must flee out the back of his own home. He emerges onto streets thrumming with violence: it is Kristallnacht, and synagogues are being burnt, Jews rounded up and their businesses destroyed. Turned away from establishments he had long patronised, betrayed by friends and colleagues, Otto finds his life as a respected businessman has dissolved overnight. Desperately trying to conceal his Jewish identity, he takes train after train across Germany in a race to escape this homeland that is no longer home. Twenty-three-year-old Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz wrote The Passenger at breakneck speed in 1938, fresh in the wake of the Kristallnacht pogroms, and his prose flies at the same pace. Shot through with Hitckcockian tension, The Passenger is a blisteringly immediate story of flight and survival in Nazi Germany.

General

Imprint:	Pushkin Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2021
Authors:	Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
Introduction by:	Andre Aciman
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-1-78227-540-4
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	German
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > General Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > War fiction > Second World War fiction
LSN:	1-78227-540-1
Barcode:	9781782275404

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