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# The Passenger

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Buy The Passenger by Boschwitz, Ulrich Alexander, Aciman, André (ISBN: 9781782275404) from desertcart's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

Review: identity, society and alienation - a great read - fabulous book, almost like an allegory. A quick and very satisfying read
Review: On the Run in Germany - A frantic depiction of a man on the run in Nazi Germany in the immediate aftermath of the Kristallnacht pogrom. For several days in November 1938, the Jewish Otto Silbermann bounces around inside the cage that is Germany, trying in an unfocused way to escape across a border, then gradually giving up and subsiding into a form of hopeless madness. The pinball machine is the German train system -- Berlin to Dortmund, Dortmund to Hamburg, Hamburg to Munich, Munich to Hamburg.... Silbermann looks Aryan and so escapes apprehension for quite a long time. All the time, until it is stolen, he carries the enormous sum with him of RM41,000 in cash, and lives in panicky fear of its theft. This amount is itself the extortionately low price he realised for the sale of his business to his once-trustworthy Aryan partner. The truest thing about this book is the insidious way the Aryan population turns on, ostracises and condemns the Jewish minority: "If it were up to me, I could help you no problem, but...". There are exceptions, who Silbermann encounters as he runs, but he is by then probably too far gone in desperation to stop, listen and evaluate the coded offers of help that are given. Nothing uniquely German about all this; it would probably be true of any population under the heel of a terrorist, murderous regime -- and we all stand warned. The text, unsurprisingly, is a bit dated and the translation in places odd. If I had just received this on plain sheets of paper as a random passage of English, I would still know that it was German in original. Still, a very good book, of which the text was only rediscovered in 2016, written with fierce urgency by an author who was to die at 27. Is this some kind of allegory for Boschwitz's own life? In the end, the tale is bleak, so don't read The Passenger if you're looking for an emotional lift.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 31,119 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 442 in Fiction Classics (Books) 451 in War Story Fiction 1,458 in Literary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.0 out of 5 stars 2,681 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ identity, society and alienation - a great read
*by M***K on 22 December 2025*

fabulous book, almost like an allegory. A quick and very satisfying read

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ On the Run in Germany
*by C***S on 10 May 2021*

A frantic depiction of a man on the run in Nazi Germany in the immediate aftermath of the Kristallnacht pogrom. For several days in November 1938, the Jewish Otto Silbermann bounces around inside the cage that is Germany, trying in an unfocused way to escape across a border, then gradually giving up and subsiding into a form of hopeless madness. The pinball machine is the German train system -- Berlin to Dortmund, Dortmund to Hamburg, Hamburg to Munich, Munich to Hamburg.... Silbermann looks Aryan and so escapes apprehension for quite a long time. All the time, until it is stolen, he carries the enormous sum with him of RM41,000 in cash, and lives in panicky fear of its theft. This amount is itself the extortionately low price he realised for the sale of his business to his once-trustworthy Aryan partner. The truest thing about this book is the insidious way the Aryan population turns on, ostracises and condemns the Jewish minority: "If it were up to me, I could help you no problem, but...". There are exceptions, who Silbermann encounters as he runs, but he is by then probably too far gone in desperation to stop, listen and evaluate the coded offers of help that are given. Nothing uniquely German about all this; it would probably be true of any population under the heel of a terrorist, murderous regime -- and we all stand warned. The text, unsurprisingly, is a bit dated and the translation in places odd. If I had just received this on plain sheets of paper as a random passage of English, I would still know that it was German in original. Still, a very good book, of which the text was only rediscovered in 2016, written with fierce urgency by an author who was to die at 27. Is this some kind of allegory for Boschwitz's own life? In the end, the tale is bleak, so don't read The Passenger if you're looking for an emotional lift.

### ⭐⭐⭐ Average read
*by C***T on 23 December 2021*

I found this book unremarkable and was an average read.

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