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Copyright © 2018 by J. G. Cotta’sche Buchhandlung
Translation copyright © 2021 by Philip Boehm
Preface copyright © 2021 by André Aciman
The translator thanks TOLEDO, a program of the Robert Bosch Foundation and the Deutscher Übersetzerfonds, for their support of this project.
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The translation of this work was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut.
Originally published in Germany in 2018 under the title Der Reisende by Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart.
Cover illustration © Riki Blanco, 2021
Cover design © Jo Walker
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data
Names: Boschwitz, Ulrich Alexander, 1915–1942, author. | Boehm, Philip, translator.
Title: The passenger: a novel / Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz; translated by Philip Boehm.
Other titles: Reisende. English
Description: First U.S. edition. | New York: Metropolitan Books/ Henry Holt & Company, 2021. | “Originally published in Germany in 2018 under the title Der Reisende by Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart”
Identifiers: LCCN 2020050685 (print) | LCCN 2020050686 (ebook) | ISBN 9781250317148 (hardback) | ISBN 9781250317155 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Jews—Germany—History—1933–1945—Fiction. | Germany—History—1933–1945—Fiction. | Nazis—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PT2603.O773 R4513 2021 (print) | LCC PT2603.O773 (ebook) | DDC 833/.912—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020050685
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020050686
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First U.S. Edition 2021
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.