THE PASSENGER

<p><b>'Gripping' - <i>Telegraph</i><br>'Brilliant' - <i>Sunday Times</i><br>'Riveting' - <i>Guardian</i></b></p><p><b>The devastating rediscovered classic written from the horrors of Nazi Germany, as one Jewish man attempts to flee persecution in the wake of Kristallnacht</b></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Twenty-three-year-old Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz wrote <i>The Passenger</i> 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, <i>The Passenger</i> is a blisteringly immediate story of flight and survival in Nazi Germany.</p>