1938 Berlin novel
1938 Germany historical novel
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classic fiction from WWII
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everyday life Nazi Germany
fast-paced WWII novel
German classic
German historical fiction
German Jewish novel
German modern classic
historical fiction WWII
historical novels about Kristallnacht
historical novels about the Holocaust
historical thriller set in Nazi Germany
Holocaust escape story
If Not Now
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Jewish businessman fleeing Nazis
Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany
Jewish protagonist in WWII fiction
Jewish refugee in WWII
Jewish resistance in literature
Jonathan Freedland
Kafka the trial
Kristallnacht novel
Kristallnacht story
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Nazi Germany novel
Nazi Germany survival novel
Nazi persecution
novel about fleeing persecution in 1938
novel about Kristallnacht and Jewish escape
novel nazi Germany
novel Nazi persecution
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novels about Jewish refugees in WWII
novels written during WWII
Otto Silbermann story of survival
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pre-war Nazi Germany fiction
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rediscovered classic
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Second world war thriller
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tension-filled WWII escape story
The Glass Pearls
The man who took trains
Ulrich Boschwitz
When?
World war two thriller
WWII fiction with Hitchcockian tension
WWII survival thriller
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Product details
- ISBN 9781782275381
- Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2021
- Publisher: Pushkin Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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.
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.
