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The book was re-discovered in the 2010s when
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to be a "gripping" but "occasionally annoying" read that was the "work of a very young man, both urgent and perishable, written at some remove from the events and atmospheres it describes". Reading the book, Hofmann was reminded "that the perpetually displaced
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shows the heat and speed of its composition. A number of its conversations can feel repetitive, while
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and wholly riveting." Freedland also stated: "The
Passenger is a gripping novel that plunges the reader into the gloom of Nazi Germany as the darkness was descending. It deserved to be read when it was written. It certainly deserves to be read now." Writing for
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November 1938 as Nazi German soldiers pound on their door in the middle of the night. Silbermann escapes from his home through the back door and travels on several trains within Germany in an attempt to flee the country.
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responsibility for the dark forces harrying
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wrote that they were a "surreal, thickly claustrophobic atmosphere of an actual nightmare – a man repeating the same move over and over again, his goal permanently out of reach. The result is a story that is part
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The revised edition was released in 2021. This edition was met with widespread critical acclaim and positive reviews. It was translated into more than 20 languages within a year of its release. In 2021 it entered
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of distance and under the impress of his own, more harmless memories of
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