The passenger / Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz ; translated from the German by Philip Boehm ; with a preface by André Aciman and an afterword by Peter Graf.

Nā:

Boschwitz, Ulrich Alexander, 1915-1942 [author.]

Kaituhi:

Momo rauemi: Text

TextKaiwhakaputa: London : Pushkin Press, 2021Whakaahuatanga: xv, 266 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781782276845
178227684X

Uniform titles:

Der Reisende. English

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Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

833.9 23

Summary: 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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The Passenger was first published in German as Der Reisende in Stuttgart, 2018.

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.

Translated from the German.

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