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Disregarded when first published in 1939, a story of a man fleeing the Nazis made it onto UK bestseller lists 82 years later. Here's how the novel was uncovered.
'The Passenger': how the forgotten Nazi-era novel became a bestseller Disregarded when first published in 1939, a story of a man fleeing the Nazis makes it onto UK bestseller lists 82 years later. Here's how the novel was uncovered. Synagogues and Jewish property was damaged on the 'Kristallnacht' pogrom in November 1938 The Passenger, a 1938 novel written by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, tells the story of businessman Otto Silbermann, who flees Berlin immediately after the Kristallnacht anti-Jewish pogrom; many of his Jewish friends have already been arrested by the Nazis. He takes trains ...