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The Passenger

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum 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. Klappentext Berlin, November 1938. With storm troopers battering against his door, Otto Silberman 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 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 Hitchcockian tension, The Passenger is a blisteringly immediate story of flight and survival in Nazi Germany.

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Authors Ulrich Boschwitz, Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
Assisted by André Aciman (Introduction)
Publisher Pushkin Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.04.2021
 
EAN 9781782275381
ISBN 978-1-78227-538-1
No. of pages 288
Dimensions 145 mm x 224 mm x 26 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

FICTION / War & Military, Second World War fiction, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction: literary and general

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