Advanced
Error loading page.
Try refreshing the page. If that doesn't work, there may be a network issue, and you can use our self test page to see what's preventing the page from loading.
Learn more about possible network issues or contact support for more help.
Title details for The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz - Available

The Passenger

by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
Neil Hellegers
Audiobook
2 of 2 copies available
Borrow Listen to a sample Listen to a sample
2 of 2 copies available
The devastating rediscovered classic written from the horrors of Nazi Germany, as one Jewish man attempts to flee persecution in the wake of Kristallnacht 'Remarkable... disabused, prophetic, and flawlessly penetrating' André Aciman 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.

  • Creators

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    April 1, 2021

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781782277781
      • File size: 197209 KB
      • Duration: 06:50:51

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      With penetrating urgency and an innate feel for the author's tragicomic yet hyperrealistic interior dialogue, narrator Neil Hellegers gives heartrending voice to this rediscovered novel, written in 1938 in the wake of Kristallnacht. Otto Silbermann, who is desperate to avoid the Third Reich's roundup of German Jews, searches for a train to take him across the border to safety on the eve of WWII. The 23-year-old Boschwitz deftly captures the spinning emotions and confusion of a man, and an entire culture, that is forced to sell their businesses, lose their friends, and abandon their families to stay one step ahead of genocide. Hellegers's superb naturalistic reading accentuates the complicated feelings of trying to stay human in a world gone mad. Essential listening. B.P. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Loading
ESCC accessibility