Mr Norris Changes Trains, Christopher Isherwood

This book was originally conceived as part of a longer novel, another section of which was made into the successful play and film, I am Camera.

First published in 1933, the novel portrays a series of encounters in Berlin between the narrator and the camp and mildly sinister Mr. Norris. Evoking the atmosphere in Berlin during the rise of the Nazis, the novel has achieved the status of a modern classic.