
The Passenger
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Narrated by:
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Neil Hellegers
About this listen
The devastating rediscovered classic written from the horrors of Nazi Germany, as one Jewish man attempts to flee persecution in the wake of Kristallnacht.
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.
©2018 J.G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger GmbH (P)2021 Pushkin PressCritic reviews
Remarkable... disabused, prophetic, and flawlessly penetrating'
-- André Aciman
A Stressful Read
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The story's fast paced narrative made it hard to keep up with at times especially with the fast talking narrator. I found I had to lower the speed just so I didn't miss anything important. I know it is a tense book but maybe slowing down would have added tension.
All in a all great literally experience.
Compelling story that left me heart broken.
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Must be read
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good. reads like an intelligent thriller.
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This should be taught in schools. Very powerful
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Should be in every classroom
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