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Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz

The Passenger

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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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Bookwire
Дата публікації оригіналу
2021
Рік виходу видання
2021
Видавництво
Pushkin Press
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Philip Boehm
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    ­tified, he thought, and even when he tried to escape into a listless indifference as a kind of self-defense, he was unable to do so completely. He walked down the stone steps. Along with the money I’ve lost all hope of buying time, he thought: there’s no more time in my account.

    He stood outside the door with the sign: bahnpolizei.

    Silbermann turned the door handle, opened the door, and looked into the room.

    A surly voice greeted him with “Heil Hitler!”

    “I’ll be right back,” he said, then turned around and went to the bench where he’d been sitting earlier.

    Should I file the report? he wondered. Report the thief? To whom? He let out a helpless, angry laugh. They’ll just arrest the person who was robbed and put him on trial instead of the thief!
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