Boschwitz Ulrich Alexander
Boschwitz Ulrich Alexander - The Passenger A Novel - Paperback
Boschwitz Ulrich Alexander - The Passenger A Novel - Paperback
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Description: A Sunday Times Bestseller A jewel of a rediscovery . A riveting noirish intensely filmic portrait of an ambivalent fugitive cornered but not captured safest when in motion at greatest risk when forced to rest. The Wall Street Journal Berlin November 1938. Jewish shops have been ransacked and looted synagogues destroyed. As storm troopers pound on his door Otto Silbermann a respected businessman is forced to sneak out the back of his own home. Turned away from establishments he had long patronized and fearful of being exposed as a Jew despite his Aryan looks he boards a train. And then another. And another until his flight becomes a frantic odyssey across Germany as he searches first for information then for help and finally for escape. Taut immediate infused with acerbic Kafkaesque humor The Passenger is an indelible portrait of a man and a society careening out of control. 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. Long considered lost the original manuscript was only recently discovered in the German archives and has now been published throughout the world and universally hailed as a masterpiece.
Title: The Passenger A Novel
Author(s): Boschwitz Ulrich Alexander
Publisher: Henry Holt And Co.
Barcode: 9781250811288
Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/12/2022
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: A Sunday Times Bestseller A jewel of a rediscovery . A riveting noirish intensely filmic portrait of an ambivalent fugitive cornered but not captured safest when in motion at greatest risk when forced to rest. The Wall Street Journal Berlin November 1938. Jewish shops have been ransacked and looted synagogues destroyed. As storm troopers pound on his door Otto Silbermann a respected businessman is forced to sneak out the back of his own home. Turned away from establishments he had long patronized and fearful of being exposed as a Jew despite his Aryan looks he boards a train. And then another. And another until his flight becomes a frantic odyssey across Germany as he searches first for information then for help and finally for escape. Taut immediate infused with acerbic Kafkaesque humor The Passenger is an indelible portrait of a man and a society careening out of control. 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. Long considered lost the original manuscript was only recently discovered in the German archives and has now been published throughout the world and universally hailed as a masterpiece.
Title: The Passenger A Novel
Author(s): Boschwitz Ulrich Alexander
Publisher: Henry Holt And Co.
Barcode: 9781250811288
Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/12/2022
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
