The Passenger (eBook)

The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller

Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz (Autor)

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2021
288 Seiten
Pushkin Press (Verlag)
978-1-78227-539-8 (ISBN)

Infos

'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.

Autor

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2021
• Einführung: André Aciman
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: 1938 Berlin novel • 1938 Germany historical novel • Alone in Berlin • Alone in Berlin Hans Fallada • andre aciman • André Aciman • André Aciman Call Me By Your Name • anti-Semitism historical fiction • classic fiction from WWII • early Holocaust fiction • everyday life Nazi Germany • fast-paced WWII novel • German Classic • german historical fiction • German Jewish novel • historical fiction wwii • historical novels about Kristallnacht • historical novels about the Holocaust • historical thriller set in Nazi Germany • Holocaust escape story • If Not Now When? • If not now when primo levi • Jewish businessman fleeing Nazis • Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany • Jewish protagonist in WWII fiction • Jewish refugee in WWII • Jewish resistance in literature • Jonathan Freedland • Kafka The Trial • Kristallnacht novel • Kristallnacht story • Nazi Germany novel • Nazi Germany survival novel • Nazi persecution • novel about fleeing persecution in 1938 • novel about Kristallnacht and Jewish escape • novel Nazi Germany • novel Nazi persecution • novels about Jewish refugees in WWII • novels written during WWII • Otto Silbermann story of survival • pre-war Nazi Germany fiction • Primo Levi • rediscovered classic • Second World War classic • second world war fiction • Second World War thriller • tension-filled WWII escape story • the glass pearls • The man who took trains • world war two thriller • WWII fiction with Hitchcockian tension • WWII survival thriller • WWII thriller novel
• ISBN-10: 1-78227-539-8 / 1782275398
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78227-539-8 / 9781782275398