Written in the wake of Kristallnacht in a frenzied four weeks, 23-year-old Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s unbearably suspenseful and disturbingly prophetic posthumous novel recounts the plight of German Jewish businessman Otto Silberman, fleeing his home in the wake of the pogrom as he races to escape this homeland that is no longer a home. Writers Eva Hoffman and Amanda Craig joins TLS fiction editor Toby Lichtig to discuss this forgotten masterpiece, the first novel to capture the terror and brutality of Kristallnacht.
An event from Jewish Book Week 2022.