{"product_id":"books-the-passenger-by-ulrich-alexander-boschwitz","title":"The Passenger","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Gripping'   - \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Brilliant' - \u003ci\u003eSunday   Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Riveting' -   \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe   devastating rediscovered classic written from the horrors of Nazi Germany, as   one Jewish man attempts to flee persecution in the wake of   Kristallnacht\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBERLIN, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurned 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty-three-year-old   Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Passenger\u003c\/i\u003e 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,   \u003ci\u003eThe Passenger\u003c\/i\u003e is a blisteringly immediate story of flight   and survival in Nazi Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53769507275025,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781805331940.jpg?v=1783951370","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-the-passenger-by-ulrich-alexander-boschwitz","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}