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Look Who's Back

Timur Vermes

Look Who's Back
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ISBN: 9781782067832

Description

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 TV 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.

Reviewed on 25th May 2015

I've been tempted by this book for some time since first seeing the cover in a little bookshop, and finally got a copy. I was not disappointed.

The story is that of Adolf Hitler, having woken up in the early 21st Century one day with no memory of the intervening period. He tells the story in the first person in the form of a memoir, as he makes contact with modern-day Berliners and learns about how the world has changed.

This is a comedic novel, and much of the humour comes from misunderstandings - both those of Hitler, who takes a lot of things at face value and makes bold assumptions, and of those around him, who believe him to be a very committed method actor/comedian.

I really enjoyed the book, and even felt I learnt a lot from it about Hitler's life and things that happened in Germany in the mid-20th Century. So long as you've got a reasonable sense of humour and won't be offended too much, I would definitely recommend it.

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