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The Passengers: A near-future thriller with a killer twist

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Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. IN THIS VOLUME: Underground Tenochtitlan by Guadalupe Nettel • Crime and (No) Punishment by Juan Villoro • The Birth of Fridolatry by Valeria Luiselli •... Páratlan könyv, nem is elsősorban irodalmi erényei miatt, hanem mert olyan lelkiállapotot ragad meg, amivel a (tágan értelmezett) holokausztirodalomban még nem találkoztam. Hőse Silbermann, a jómódú zsidó kereskedő, aki egyik pillanatban még cége élén pörgeti a német gazdaságot, a másikban meg jogfosztottan bolyong, keresve a kiutat a Harmadik Birodalomból. Boschwitz nem az erőszak regényét akarja megírni, hanem a lassú folyamatot, ahogy a rendszer elszívja a levegőt áldozata elől. Tulajdonképpen akár azt is mondhatnánk, hogy Silbermann-nal nem történik semmi különös. Nem verik meg, konkrétan nem adnak ki ellene letartóztatási parancsot – egyszerűen éreztetik vele, hogy akár meg is tehetnék mindezt. Felkeltik benne a menekülés ösztönét, arra késztetik, hogy maradék vagyonával (egy aktatáskányi márkával) elkezdjen keresztül-kasul vonatozni Germánián, Berlinből Hamburgba, Hamburgból Aachenbe, Aachenből Drezdába megy, de sehol sincs számára nyugalom. Huszonkettes csapdája: nem látják szívesen, azt akarják, hogy szívódon fel, de közben nem eresztik, rácsukják a kalitka ajtaját. És a legszörnyűbb az egészben nem a társadalom ellenségessége, hanem az ellenség megfoghatatlansága. A környezet ugyanis konkrétan nem viszonyul sehogy Silbermannhoz, leginkább igyekszik láthatatlannak tekinteni. Nem akarja „bántani”, csak annyit akar, hogy ne traktálja őt a kínjaival, ne akarjon belőle empátiát kicsiholni, és egyáltalán: bolonduljon meg csendben, tapintatosan. Ami Silbermann életére tör, az a „törvény” nevű testetlen kafkai entitás, ami megközelíthetetlen, és akivel lehetetlen perbe szállni. Hisz kivel is perlekednénk? A bürokratával? De hisz ő nem tehet semmiről, csak végrehajt, szemernyi rosszindulat nélkül. Mint ahogy a „népben” sincs rosszindulat – egyszerűen csak örül neki, hogy per pillanat nem neki a rossz, hanem másnak. A zsidónak.

The Passengers by Will Ashon review – voices of a nation The Passengers by Will Ashon review – voices of a nation

HOW can you possibly decide when you are only given SOME of the information about each passenger...WILL your personal beliefs and prejudices affect your vote or can you remain objective? Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. IN THIS VOLUME: Still Becoming by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie・ A Nation called Ineba by A. Igoni Barrett・ The Niger Delta by Noo Saro-Wiwa・plus: independent cinema... There was never a moment while reading this that I felt bored, or that the details were inconsequential to the story. It was so well-crafted.

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Hoe moet ik het allemaal voor elkaar krijgen, dacht hij wanhopig. Mijn verstand zegt dat ik zelfmoord moet plegen. Maar ik wil leven! Ondanks alles wil ik leven! Daar heb je al je verstand voor nodig, maar dat kan het niet aan, het keert zich tegen me. Het ontkent mijn bestaan. Wat moet ik er dan mee? Omdat ik het begrijp, dacht hij ongelukkig, daarom word ik wanhopig. Ach, begreep ik het maar verkeerd! Dat kan helaas niet meer. Behalve de lijst van mijn verliezen bezit ik niets meer, echt helemaal niets." Er wordt niets verbloemd, ook de kleine kantjes van Otto niet, hoe hij zich gedraagt tegenover geloofsgenoten bijvoorbeeld. Without giving too much away, this book definitely was multi-faceted, and a great deal of it actually focuses on social commentary surrounding the consequences of self-driving cars and the importance we place on one person or one attribute vs. another. There are still plenty of twists for the thriller lovers, but when Marrs says he spent a lot of time researching this book, I believe it! It really made me reflect on the role technology plays in my life and how much control I would be truly willing to give up...and how much I would cling to for dear life! It is also uncannily prescient. “Perhaps they’ll carefully undress us first and then kill us, so our clothes won’t get bloody and our banknotes won’t get damaged,” he writes. “These days murder is performed economically.” That reads like a premonition, not only of the process that would come nearly four years later, as Jews were stripped naked before entering the gas chambers, but also of the Nazi determination to extract every last pfennig from their victims, even pulling gold teeth from the mouths of the dead. Atrastoji ULRICH ALEXANDER BOSCHWITZ istorija apie KELEIVĮ. Patvirtina ir užantspauduoja to laikmečio tragedijas, apnuogina žmogiškumo sampratą, atliepia plonytės ribos egzistavimą tarp sveiko ir pamesto proto.

The Passenger: The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller: Ulrich The Passenger: The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller: Ulrich

Hailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing absurdity about flight and persecution in 1930s GermanyDe reiziger is de Joodse ondernemer Otto Silbermann die noodgedwongen vlucht, daags na de Kristallnacht. De Joodse gemeenschap in Duitsland wordt structureel aangevallen, te leven lijkt Silbermann verboden. Als een dier dat wordt gekooid - zonder voer. Zijn kennissen negeren zijn uitgestoken hand, letterlijk, ze durven niet meer. ,,Het is niet mijn schuld'', zeggen ze verontschuldigend. Het is te riskant. informants and plainclothes policemen are stalking everywhere, in trains, street corners, cafes...This is 1938, and World War Two hasn't erupted yet, but everyone knows it's coming...With the dragnet closing in, you realize you're trapped and have nowhere to go...Why didn't you flee when you could easily have done so?" Clinging to his existence as it was just days before, Silbermann refuses to believe what is happening even as he is beset by opportunists, betrayed by associates, and bereft of family, friends, and fortune. As his world collapses around him, he is forced to concede that his nightmare is all too real.

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Welp. I think I've reached the end of the road (har har) with John Marrs. I loved The One and The Good Samaritan, but Keeping It In The Family, The Marriage Act, and now this one have all been subpar or worse. Compelling though the real-life tale is, it’s surpassed by the story between the covers. The central character is Otto Silbermann, a successful, slightly self-satisfied businessman in Berlin who finds his world collapsing in the hours that follow the night of broken glass. He is Jewish, but until now that had been an incidental fact. There’s nothing visibly Jewish about him, he tells us often; his wife is not a Jew. Rather, this is a label the new rulers of the country are insistently imposing on him and which he cannot escape: it is the J stamped in his passport. Who are these people—these passengers? Is this a case of wrong place wrong time or have these passengers been specially chosen?My gut ached when Otto was trying to stay AHEAD of the Nazis jumping on and off those trains — just trying to survive. Provocative, terrifying and compulsive. Another savagely clever near future thriller' - Cara Hunter, bestselling author of Close to Home.

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