The Passenger

'Gripping'- Telegraph
'Brilliant' - SundayTimes
'Riveting' -Guardian

Thedevastating rediscovered classic written from the horrors of Nazi Germany, asone Jewish man attempts to flee persecution in the wake ofKristallnacht

BERLIN, NOVEMBER 1938. With stormtroopers battering against his door, Otto Silbermann must flee out the backof his own home. He emerges onto streets thrumming with violence: it isKristallnacht, and synagogues are being burnt, Jews rounded up and theirbusinesses destroyed.

Turned away from establishments hehad long patronised, betrayed by friends and colleagues, Otto finds his lifeas a respected businessman has dissolved overnight. Desperately trying toconceal his Jewish identity, he takes train after train across Germany in arace to escape this homeland that is no longer home.

Twenty-three-year-oldUlrich Alexander Boschwitz wrote The Passenger atbreakneck speed in 1938, fresh in the wake of the Kristallnacht pogroms, andhis prose flies at the same pace. Shot through with Hitckcockian tension,The Passenger is a blisteringly immediate story of flightand survival in Nazi Germany.