Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes - ISBN: 9781782067832
Paperback
Hitler returns in modern Germany: YouTube star, dangerous ideas.

Look Who's Back

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  • Paperback

    384 pages

  • Release Date

    14 April 2015

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Summary

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. Bu…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781782067832
ISBN-10:1782067833
Author:Timur Vermes, Jamie Bulloch
Publisher:Quercus Publishing
Imprint:MacLehose Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:14 April 2015
Weight:266g
Dimensions:198mm x 142mm x 25mm
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Critics Review

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

About The Author

Timur Vermes

Timur Vermes was born in Nuremberg in 1967, the son of a German mother and a Hungarian father who fled the country in 1956. 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. This is his first novel.

Jamie Bulloch’s translations include Ruth Maier’s Diary, Portrait of a Mother as a Young Women by F. C. Delius, and novels by Paulus Hochgatterer and Daniel Glattauer.

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