Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz was born in Berlin in 1915. He fled Germany in 1935 and wrote his novels while studying at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1939, he settled in England, but after the war broke out he was interned as a German “enemy alien”—despite his Jewish background—and subsequently shipped to Australia. In 1942, Boschwitz was allowed to return to England, but his ship was torpedoed by a German submarine, and he was killed along with 362 other passengers. He was twenty-seven years old.
The Passenger
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz; translated by Philip Boehm; preface by André Aciman
Henry Holt and Co.
Metropolitan Books
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