Look Who's Back
Published on 27. March 2014
352 pages
978-1-78206-782-5 (ISBN)
Description
THE SMASH-HIT HITLER SATIRE - MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD
"A brilliant book" RUSSELL KANE
"Brilliant and hilarious" KEN FOLLETT
"An uproarious, disturbing book that will resonate long after you turn the final page" Caroline Jowett, Daily Express
"There's no question that the novel has hit upon the key paradox of our modern obsession with Hitler" Philip Olterman, Observer
Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Things have changed - no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognises his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run by a woman.
People certainly recognise him, albeit as a flawless impersonator who refuses to break character. The unthinkable, the inevitable happens, and the ranting Hitler goes viral, becomes a YouTube star, gets his own T.V. show, and people begin to listen. But the Fuehrer has another programme with even greater ambition - to set the country he finds a shambles back to rights.
Look Who's Back stunned and then thrilled 1.5 million German readers with its fearless approach to the most taboo of subjects. Naive yet insightful, repellent yet strangely sympathetic, the revived Hitler unquestionably has a spring in his step.
Translated from German by Jamie Bulloch
A box-office-hit film now available on NETFLIX
A two-part BBC Radio 4 Dramatisation directed by and starring David Threlfall (Shameless)
"A brilliant book" RUSSELL KANE
"Brilliant and hilarious" KEN FOLLETT
"An uproarious, disturbing book that will resonate long after you turn the final page" Caroline Jowett, Daily Express
"There's no question that the novel has hit upon the key paradox of our modern obsession with Hitler" Philip Olterman, Observer
Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Things have changed - no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognises his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run by a woman.
People certainly recognise him, albeit as a flawless impersonator who refuses to break character. The unthinkable, the inevitable happens, and the ranting Hitler goes viral, becomes a YouTube star, gets his own T.V. show, and people begin to listen. But the Fuehrer has another programme with even greater ambition - to set the country he finds a shambles back to rights.
Look Who's Back stunned and then thrilled 1.5 million German readers with its fearless approach to the most taboo of subjects. Naive yet insightful, repellent yet strangely sympathetic, the revived Hitler unquestionably has a spring in his step.
Translated from German by Jamie Bulloch
A box-office-hit film now available on NETFLIX
A two-part BBC Radio 4 Dramatisation directed by and starring David Threlfall (Shameless)
Reviews / Votes
Be warned. This book is funny. Very funny -- Rebecca K Morrison * Independent * Worryingly believable (time travelling despots aside) and unsettling. But also very funny -- Nathan Filer A brilliant book -- Russell Kane Brilliant and hilarious -- Ken Follett Incredible . . . Very funny -- Alastair Campbell Laugh-out-loud funny . . . An uproarious, disturbing book that will resonate long after you turn the final page * Daily Express * Both funny and frightening . . . A powerful and important book * Independent on Sunday * Peculiar, provocative and very funny . . . It makes you laugh and forces you to think * Irish Independent * Wonderfully inventive, very funny and superbly written * We Love This Book * The Hitler of Look Who's Back has aged not a whit: his fascist views are intact, and he is as foul-tempered and misanthropic as ever * Sunday Times * There's no question that the novel has hit upon the key paradox of our modern obsession with Hitler * Observer * The jokes are very funny . . . rollicking, enjoyable * Financial Times * A satire on the cult of personality . . . nicely played * Monocle * This uproariously funny satire will have you in stitches * Shortlist * 'An uproarious, disturbing book that will resonate long after you turn the final page' Caroline Jowett, Daily Express. * Daily Express * 'Be warned. This book is funny. Very funny' Rebecca Morrison, Independent. * Rebecca Morrison, Independent * 'Both funny and frightening, this is a subtle, historical study of the commanding nature of the fanatical demagogue, as well as a savage critique of contemporary western culture. It is a powerful and important book' Sue Gaisford, Independent. * Independent *More details
Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Quercus Publishing
Edition type
Digital original
File size
0,77 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78206-782-5 (9781782067825)
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Persons
The son of a German mother and a Hungarian father who fled the country in 1956, Timur Vermes was born in Nuremberg in 1967. He studied history and politics and went on to become a journalist. He has written for the Abendzeitung and the Cologne Express and worked for various magazines. He has ghostwritten several books since 2007. Look Who's Back has sold more than 250,000 copies in its English editions, and rights were sold to 35 territories.
