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SUMMARY:Book Club Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Our next meeting will be Sunday\, November 21 at 12:30pm in the comfort of your own home via Zoom! \nWe will be discussing Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s The Passenger \nJoin Zoom Meeting: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/86075480643?pwd=eTZabGhnZUNEOThSOE0vbzBnbmpyQT09 \nMeeting ID: 860 7548 0643 \nPasscode: 1955 \nSYNOPSIS\n\nHailed as a remarkable literary discovery\, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing absurdity about flight and persecution in 1930s Germany \nBerlin\, November 1938. Jewish shops have been ransacked and looted\, synagogues destroyed. As storm troopers pound on his door\, Otto Silbermann\, a respected businessman who fought for Germany in the Great War\, is forced to sneak out the back of his own home. Turned away from establishments he had long patronized\, and fearful of being exposed as a Jew despite his Aryan looks\, he boards a train. \nAnd then another. And another . . . until his flight becomes a frantic odyssey across Germany\, as he searches first for information\, then for help\, and finally for escape. His travels bring him face-to-face with waiters and conductors\, officials and fellow outcasts\, seductive women and vicious thieves\, a few of whom disapprove of the regime while the rest embrace it wholeheartedly. \nClinging to his existence as it was just days before\, Silbermann refuses to believe what is happening even as he is beset by opportunists\, betrayed by associates\, and bereft of family\, friends\, and fortune. As his world collapses around him\, he is forced to concede that his nightmare is all too real. \nTwenty-three-year-old Ulrich Boschwitz wrote The Passenger at breakneck speed in 1938\, fresh in the wake of the Kristallnacht pogroms\, and his prose flies at the same pace. Taut\, immediate\, infused with acerbic Kafkaesque humor\, The Passenger is an indelible portrait of a man and a society careening out of control. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nUlrich 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 362 other passengers. He was twenty-seven years old. \n 
URL:https://theshaar.ca/event/book-club-meeting-9/
LOCATION:The Shaar\, 1981 Oxford St\, Halifax\, NS\, B3H 4A4\, Canada
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