MR NORRIS CHANGES TRAINS

First published in 1933, Mr Norris Changes Trains portrays a series ofencounters in Berlin in the early thirties between the narrator, WilliamBradshaw, and the camp and mildly sinister Mr Norris. Piquantly evocativeof the atmosphere in Berlin during the rise of the Nazis, it is a novelthat has achieved the status of a modern classic, combining a vividdepiction of people and places with the forcefulness of an ironicpolitical parable.