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020			_a9781250317148
082	1		_aFIC BOS _2
100	1		_a Boschwitz, Ulrich Alexander
245	1	0	_aThe passenger : _ba novel _c/ Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
250			_a1st US edition
260			_aNew York _b: Henry Holt and Company _c, 2021, c2018
300			_a266 p. _c; 22 cm
520			_aBerlin, November 1938. Jewish shops have been ransacked and looted, synagogues destroyed. As storm troopers pound on his door, Otto Silbermann, a respected businessman who fought for Germany in the Great War, is forced to sneak out the back of his own home. Turned away from establishments he had long patronized, and fearful of being exposed as a Jew despite his Aryan looks, he boards a train. And then another. And another . . . until his flight becomes a frantic odyssey across Germany, as he searches first for information, then for help, and finally for escape. His travels bring him face-to-face with waiters and conductors, officials and fellow outcasts, seductive women and vicious thieves, a few of whom disapprove of the regime while the rest embrace it wholeheartedly. Clinging to his existence as it was just days before, Silbermann refuses to believe what is happening even as he is beset by opportunists, betrayed by associates, and bereft of family, friends, and fortune. As his world collapses around him, he is forced to concede that his nightmare is all too real. 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. Taut, immediate, infused with acerbic Kafkaesque humor, The Passenger is an indelible portrait of a man and a society careening out of control
546			_aTranslated from the German to English
650		4	_aJews _z-Germany _x-History _y-1933-1945 _v--Fiction
650		4	_aKristallnacht _y-1938 _x-Fiction
650		4	_aNazis _v--Fiction
700	1		_aBoehm, Philip
942			_cMO
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