{"product_id":"the-passenger-by-ulrich-alexander-boschwitz","title":"The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBerlin, 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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. 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShot through with Hitchcockian tension, The Passenger is a blisteringly immediate story of flight and survival in Nazi Germany.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"The Week Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54038092284180,"sku":"tuk1789769179803","price":12.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1011\/7627\/9316\/files\/the-passenger-by-ulrich-alexander-boschwitz_1.jpg?v=1789769183","url":"https:\/\/straphemfit.shop\/products\/the-passenger-by-ulrich-alexander-boschwitz","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}