The Passenger

02/27/2022
63 min
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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.

About the speakers

Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman is an acclaimed, award-winning writer and academic. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is currently a Visiting Professor at the European Institute at UCL.

Toby Lichtig

Toby Lichtig is the Fiction and Politics Editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He writes for a range of publications and has appeared as a guest critic on various television and radio programmes. He also freelances as a documentary producer. Toby was chair of judges of the 2018 JQ/Wingate Prize and of the EBRD Literature Prize 2020-23.

Amanda Craig

Amanda Craig is a British novelist, short-story writer and critic. After a brief time in advertising and PR, she became a journalist winning both the Young Journalist of the Year and the Catherine Pakenham Award. Her novels Hearts and Minds and The Golden Rule were both longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Francis Spufford […]

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The Passenger

02/27/2022
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63 min

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Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman is an acclaimed, award-winning writer and academic. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is currently a Visiting...

Toby Lichtig

Toby Lichtig is the Fiction and Politics Editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He writes for a range of publications and has appeared as a...

Amanda Craig

Amanda Craig is a British novelist, short-story writer and critic. After a brief time in advertising and PR, she became a journalist winning both...