{"product_id":"9781805331940","title":"The Passenger (by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Gripping'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Brilliant' - \u003ci\u003eSunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTimes\u003cbr\u003e'Riveting' -\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edevastating rediscovered classic written from the horrors of Nazi Germany, as\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eone Jewish man attempts to flee persecution in the wake of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKristallnacht\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBERLIN, NOVEMBER 1938. With storm\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etroopers battering against his door, Otto Silbermann must flee out the back\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof his own home. He emerges onto streets thrumming with violence: it is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKristallnacht, and synagogues are being burnt, Jews rounded up and their\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebusinesses destroyed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurned away from establishments he\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehad long patronised, betrayed by friends and colleagues, Otto finds his life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas a respected businessman has dissolved overnight. Desperately trying to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econceal his Jewish identity, he takes train after train across Germany in a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erace to escape this homeland that is no longer home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty-three-year-old\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUlrich Alexander Boschwitz wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Passenger\u003c\/i\u003e at\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebreakneck speed in 1938, fresh in the wake of the Kristallnacht pogroms, and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehis prose flies at the same pace. Shot through with Hitckcockian tension,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Passenger\u003c\/i\u003e is a blisteringly immediate story of flight\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand survival in Nazi Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pushkin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49601713963235,"sku":"9781805331940","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1701\/6275\/files\/9781805331940.jpg?v=1787727734","url":"https:\/\/www.harbourbookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781805331940","provider":"The Harbour Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}