{"product_id":"the-passenger-9781250811288","title":"The Passenger","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eA jewel of a rediscovery . . . . A riveting, noirish, intensely filmic portrait of an ambivalent fugitive, cornered but not captured, safest when in motion, at greatest risk when forced to rest.\u003c\/b\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBerlin, November 1938. Jewish shops have been ransacked and looted, synagogues destroyed. As storm troopers pound on his door, Otto Silbermann, a respected businessman, 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. Taut, immediate, infused with acerbic Kafkaesque humor, \u003ci\u003eThe Passenger\u003c\/i\u003e is an indelible portrait of a man and a society careening out of control. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwenty-three-year-old Ulrich Boschwitz wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Passenger\u003c\/i\u003e at breakneck speed in 1938, fresh in the wake of the Kristallnacht pogroms, and his prose flies at the same pace. Long considered lost, the original manuscript was only recently discovered in the German archives and has now been published throughout the world and universally hailed as a masterpiece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Metropolitan Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250811288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288","brand":"Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41614534672565,"sku":"9781250811288","price":14.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_f713a824-f23e-4d6b-9f30-e7292e21b7e2.jpg?v=1644902079","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-passenger-9781250811288","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}