| ISBN |
9781782275381 |
| 178227538X |
| 9781782276845 |
| 178227684X |
| Author |
Boschwitz, Ulrich Alexander, 1915-1942 author. |
| Title |
The passenger / Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz ; translated from the German by Philip Boehm ; preface by André Aciman ; afterword by Peter Graf. |
| Published |
London : Pushkin Press, 2021. |
| Physical description |
xv, 266 pages ; 23 cm. |
| General note |
First published in German as 'Der Reisende' in Stuttgart, 2018. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Germany -- Fiction |
| German fiction -- Translations into English |
| Jewish refugees -- Fiction |
| Nineteen thirties -- Fiction |
| Escapes -- Fiction |
| Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction |
| Nazis -- Fiction |
| Thrillers (Fiction) |
| Historical fiction |
| Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction |
| Additional author |
Boehm, Philip translator. |
| Aciman, André writer of preface. |
| Graf, Peter, 1967- author of afterword, colophon, etc. |
