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Mr Norris Changes Trains
Mr Norris Changes Trains | Christopher Isherwood
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Two Englishmen meeting on a train to Berlin in 1930 kick off one of Isherwood’s most enduring novels 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. 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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rachaich
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I rather liked this.
It chronicled the time leading up to the rise of Hitler through the events of a British man in Berlin, and his odd relationship with the equally odd Mr Norris.

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rachaich
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I do like an oddly titled book!

Lcsmcat I‘ve chosen to read books based on odd titles alone. This might become one of them. 6y
rachaich @Lcsmcat it's an odd read so far... 6y
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Wilkie
Mr Norris Changes Trains | Christopher Isherwood
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Much too hard to choose one #queerread .....
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