The passenger : a novel / Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz ; translated by Philip Boehm.
Record details
- ISBN: 1250317142 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781250317148 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781250317148
- ISBN: 1250317142
- Physical Description: pages cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company, 2021.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Originally published in Germany in 2018 under the title Der Reisende by Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart" |
Summary, etc.: | "Hailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing absurdity about flight and persecution in 1930s Germany"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Subject: | Jews > Germany > History > 1933-1945 > Fiction. Germany > History > 1933-1945 > Fiction. Nazis > Fiction. |
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Author Notes
The Passenger : A Novel
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz was born in Berlin in 1915. He left Germany in 1935 for Oslo, Norway, studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, and wrote two novels, including The Passenger . Boschwitz eventually settled in England in 1939, although he was interned as a German "enemy alien" after war broke out--despite his Jewish background--and subsequently shipped to Australia. In 1942, Boschwitz was allowed to return to England, but his ship was torpedoed by a German submarine and he was killed along with all 362 passengers. He was twenty-seven years old. Philip Boehm has translated more than thirty novels and plays by German and Polish writers, including Herta Müller, Franz Kafka, and Hanna Krall. For these translations he has received numerous awards, including NEA and Guggenheim fellowships and most recently the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize. He also works as a theater director and playwright.