Name: Mr Norris Changes Trains
Rating: 3.55 (10 reviews)

Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood

Op weg naar Berlijn, tijdens de opkomst van het Nazi-regimme, ontmoet een jonge Engelsman een wonderlijk amorele landgenoot, die hem later in de meest onverwachte situaties brengt.

Mr Norris Changes Trains

Christopher Isherwood

Mu-An Chiou

The premise seemed interesting, but this was generally a let down for me. In general I feel like I got to know some people and their stories, some are somewhat interesting, others not so much, and I ended up caring about none of them. Perhaps it is also because the times have changed, and many of indecencies of the past are no longer taboos, thus making the story much less provoking as it perhaps once was. The most disappointing of all for me was that the historical background for the story added very little, if any.

After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship with the mildly sinister Arthur Norris. Norris is a man of contradictions; lavish but heavily in debt, excessively polite but sexually deviant. First published in 1933 Mr Norris Changes Trainspiquantly evokes the atmosphere of Berlin during the rise of the Nazis.

Mr Norris Changes Trains

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