The Passenger - Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz Translator: Hillel Halkin

Translator: Hillel Halkin

and he remembers all the days that have come before

In the “house of gazes

What is love

With precise artistry

The Passenger - Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz Translator: Hillel HalkinBerlin, 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. Turned away from establishments he had long patronised, betrayed by friends and colleagues, Otto finds his life as a respected businessman has dissolved overnight. Desperately