Mr Norris Changes Trains
โ Scribed by Christopher Isherwood
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 143 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0811220273
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โฆ Synopsis
Two Englishmen meeting on a train to Berlin in 1930 kick off one of Isherwood's most enduring novelsOn a train to Berlin in late 1930, William Bradshaw locks eyes with Arthur Norris, an irresistibly comical fellow Englishman wearing a rather obvious wig and nervous about producing his passport at the frontier. So begins a friendship conducted in the seedier quarters of the city, where Norris runs a dubious import-export business and lives in excited fear of his bullying secretary,his creditors, and his dominatrix girlfriend, Anni. As the worldwide economic Depression strangles the masses and the Communists make a desperate stand against Fascism and war, Norris sells himself as political orator, spy, and double agent. He also sells his friends. Like its companion novel, Goodbye to Berlin , Mr Norris Changes Trains offers unforgettable characters struggling in the vortex as the Nazis rise to power.
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