If you enjoyed Emeric Pressburger's THE GLASS PEARLS, Sally Carson's CROKED CROSS or Anna Seghers' TRANSIT, chances are you'll like THE PASSENGER.
It would make a great film, very much in the vein of classic Hitchcock thrillers such as THE LADY VANISHES, NOTORIOUS & THE 39 STEPS! #BookSky #FilmSky
JacquiWine
New on the blog today, I've written about THE PASSENGER by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz (tr Philip Boehm).
A brilliant, gripping novel in which a Jewish man goes on the run to evade the Nazis following the Kristallnacht atrocities. So timely & chilling... 💙📚
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For a novel written in the immediate aftermath of Kristallnacht, a state-sponsored wave of violence, vandalism and imprisonment of Jews that took place in November 1938, The Passenger feels remarka…
