The passenger

Boschwitz, Ulrich Alexander, 1915-19422024

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Summary

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.

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Main title:

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

Author:

Boschwitz, Ulrich Alexander, 1915-1942, authorBoehm, Philip, translator

Imprint:

London : Pushkin Press, 2024.

Collation:

xv, 266 pages ; 20 cm.

Series title:

Pushkin Press classics

Notes:

This translation originally published: 2021.

ISBN:

9781805331940 (pbk. :)