Passenger (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Serie
Pushkin Classics
Antal sidor
288
Utgivningsdatum
2024-11-07
Förlag
Pushkin Press
Översättare
Philip Boehm
Originalspråk
Tyska
Originaltitel
Der Reisende
Dimensioner
35 x 195 x 132 mm
Vikt
256 g
ISBN
9781805331940

Passenger

av Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
Häftad,  Engelska, 2024-11-07
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'Gripping' - Telegraph
'Brilliant' - Sunday Times
'Riveting' - Guardian

The devastating rediscovered classic written from the horrors of Nazi Germany, as one Jewish man attempts to flee persecution in the wake of Kristallnacht

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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Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz was born in Berlin in 1915. He left Germany in 1935 for Oslo, Norway, studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, and wrote two novels, including The Passenger. Boschwitz eventually settled in England in 1939, although he was interned as a German "enemy alien" after war broke out-despite his Jewish background-and subsequently shipped to Australia. In 1942, Boschwitz was allowed to return to England, but his ship was torpedoed by a German submarine and he was killed along with all 362 passengers. He was twenty-seven years old.

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