Mr. Norris Changes Trains

The first of Isherwood’s Berlin novels, this is narrated by Isherwood’s alter ego, a penniless young man living in Germany of the 1930’s who makes his living teaching English. Mr. Norris, a mysterious man the narrator meets on the train to Berlin has various political and financial troubles and eventually is forced to leave the country when his activities come to the attentions of the Nazis.