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The Passenger (Paperback)
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz; Introduction by Andre Aciman
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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.
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The Passenger (Paperback)
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz; Translated by Philip Boehm; Introduction by Andre Aciman
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The Passenger (Hardcover)
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz; Introduction by Andre Aciman
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Discovery Miles 3 870
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Berlin, November 1938. With storm troopers battering against his
door, Otto Silberman 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 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
Hitchcockian tension, The Passenger is a blisteringly immediate
story of flight and survival in Nazi Germany.
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The Passenger (Paperback)
Philip Boehm; Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
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Discovery Miles 3 290
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Germany, November 1938: Otto Silbermann receives a knock on his
door and realises he must flee. A respected German-Jewish
businessman, he has managed to evade the escalating brutality of
the Nazi regime. But now, as he and his wife plan to leave, all
avenues are shut down and he is forced to abandon his home amid the
untrammelled violence of Kristallnacht. With all the money he can
gather stuffed into a suitcase, Otto takes train after train across
Germany, desperately seeking to cross the border, every moment
terrified a fellow passenger will discover his Jewish identity. An
unbearably tense rediscovered classic, The Passenger is an
unparalleled depiction of the terrifying atmosphere of Nazi
Germany.
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