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"The Passenger" is a riveting, noirish, intensely filmic portrait of an ambivalent fugitive: a Jew hiding in plain sight during the terrifying days following Kristallnacht; a wealthy Berliner for whom money has become a burden, cornered but not captured, safest when in motion, at greatest risk when forced to rest. The book is urgent, propulsive, often tragicomic, peppered with moments of absurdism and existential speculation, by turns Hitchcockian and Beckettian. It has the immediacy of a novel written in a hurry. But if the original was disordered, this new version is cohesive and beautifully paced.
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‘The Passenger’ Review: No Exit
A once-lost German novel follows one man’s hapless attempt to flee the Third Reich.
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