The Passenger
(Author) Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz'Gripping' - Telegraph 'Brilliant' - Sunday Times 'Riveting' - Guardian The devastating rediscovered classic written from the horrors of Nazi Germany, as one Jewish man attempts to flee persecution in the wake of Kristallnacht 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. Twenty-three-year-old Ulrich Alexander 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 Hitckcockian tension, The Passenger is a blisteringly immediate story of flight and survival in Nazi Germany.
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz was a German-Jewish writer known for his novel "The Passenger," which depicts the life of a Jewish man fleeing Nazi persecution. His writing style is characterized by its stark realism and unflinching portrayal of the human experience in times of crisis. Boschwitz's work sheds light on the struggles faced by those marginalized by society and has made a lasting impact on the literary genre of exile literature. Despite his tragically short life (he died at the age of 27 in 1942), Boschwitz's contributions to literature continue to be celebrated for their poignant and powerful storytelling.
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