VENUE: December's session is at the OSAKI branch of FooTNiK.
Just 3 stops along the Yamanote Line & 3 mins walk from the Station.
From JR Osaki platforms: Go to South Gate then New West Exit.
Walk towards ThinkPark Building ahead. On the right is an escalator go down to The FooTNiK OSAKI on ground level.
See you in Osaki!
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Get the correct book! There are several books with this title, you want the one written by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz.
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Read the book (or most of It)
Order a drink/food at the counter
Enjoy discussing with your fellow book-lovers!
We split into groups for the discussion.
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December’s book is: The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz**
Berlin, November 1938. Jewish shops have been ransacked and looted, synagogues destroyed. As storm troopers pound on his door, Otto Silbermann, a respected businessman, 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. And 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. Taut, immediate, infused with acerbic Kafkaesque humor, The Passenger is an indelible portrait of a man and a society careening out of control.
Twenty-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. Long considered lost, the original manuscript was only recently discovered in the German archives and has now been published throughout the world and universally hailed as a masterpiece.
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
“A jewel of a rediscovery . . . . A riveting, noirish, intensely filmic portrait of an ambivalent fugitive, cornered but not captured, safest when in motion, at greatest risk when forced to rest.” —The Wall Street Journal
Directions can be found at bottom of www.footnik.com
