Mr Norris Changes Trains
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780811220262
Subjects: Fiction, espionage; Nazis, fiction; Friendship, fiction; Berlin (germany), fiction
Description: "On 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"--Page 4 of cover.