{"product_id":"9781805331940","title":"The Passenger","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Gripping' - \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Brilliant' - \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Riveting' - \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe devastating rediscovered classic written from the horrors of Nazi Germany, as one Jewish man attempts to flee persecution in the wake of Kristallnacht\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBERLIN, NOVEMBER 1938. With storm troopers battering against his door, Otto Silbermann 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\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty-three-year-old Ulrich Alexander 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. Shot through with Hitckcockian tension, \u003ci\u003eThe Passenger\u003c\/i\u003e is a blisteringly immediate story of flight and survival in Nazi Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pushkin Press Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49872414966008,"sku":"EB_LI0811_E25-02_SYDNEY","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9781805331940-1.jpg?v=1784107578","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/ja\/products\/9781805331940","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}