Berlin, 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 trying to conceal his Jewish identity, he takes train after train across Germany in a race to escape this homeland that is no longer home.
| ISBN: | 9781805331940 |
| Publication date: | 7th November 2024 |
| Author: | Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz |
| Publisher: | Pushkin Press Classics an imprint of Pushkin Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Series: | Pushkin Press Classics |
| Primary Genre | Historical Fiction |
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