
The Passenger (Hardback)
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz (author), Andre Aciman (author of introduction)- We can order this from the publisher

Written in the wake of the anti-Semitic pogroms of 1938, Boschwitz’s immersive novel recounts the flight of a Jewish businessman across Germany in unbearably suspenseful and disturbingly prophetic prose.
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.
Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 9781782275381
Number of pages: 288
Dimensions: 216 x 135 mm
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“Tremendous!”
From the first page I was hooked to the last. I was with Otto every step of the way, and felt his fear and frustrations acutely. A very unusual style of writing makes this a very
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“Addictive!”
I have had my eye on this book for some months so as soon as I acquired a copy it went straight to the top of my pile.
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“Fast paced, addictive reading”
It’s been a long while since I have read a fiction book as gripping as this. It’s astonishing to read in the blurb that this was written in 1938 when persecution of the Jews was already in full flow. The fear... More
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