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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 ...
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news Lost novel makes UK bestseller list 83 years on A novel written about the persecution of Jews in Germany in 1938 but which was then forgotten about for 80 years has made it onto a UK bestsellers list. Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz's The Passenger is about a Jewish man who - like the author - attempts to escape the rise of the Nazi regime. It was rediscovered in 2018 after the author's niece told an editor about it. The book has had stellar reviews and has now entered The Sunday Times list of top 10 hardback fiction bestsellers. The UK edition sold almost 1,800 copies last week to put it at ...
Henry Holt and Company/Metropolitan Books, 266 pages, $24.99 A feverish urgency infuses Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s rediscovered novel about a frantic German Jewish businessman after Kristallnacht, an internal refugee whose doomed travels both echoed and prefigured the author’s own. Boschwitz’s Jewish father had converted to Christianity and died before Ulrich’s birth in 1915. Even so, Boschwitz had left Germany for Sweden with his Protestant mother in 1935 as restrictions against Jews mounted. He studied in Paris, at the Sorbonne, then decamped to Luxembourg, Belgium and England. Bu...