Bryan Karetnyk

Hitting the buffers: The Passenger, by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, reviewed

When Otto Silberman is stripped of all right to exist, he takes to the railways to dodge the Nazis in this tense, nightmarish novel of 1938

Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz. Credit: Archive of the Leo Baeck Institute 
issue 15 May 2021
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  • The Passenger

    Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, translated by Philip Boehm

    Pushkin Press, pp. 256, £14

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