Look Who's Back
Mar 2014 · Hachette UK
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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 Führer 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 Führer 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)
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4.4
78 reviews
Ray Bennett
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26 June 2015
Fantastic book, well written. A few tongue in cheek moments but overall a brilliantly satirical summary of modern day politics and media but with a twist.
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Jfergs.
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29 September 2015
Hitler reappears and becomes a media star
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Eamonn Daly
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17 January 2016
Good read, very funny, surprisingly real!
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About the author
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.
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