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Look Who's Back

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HE'S BACK AND HE'S FUHRIOUS!


"Desperately funny . . . An ingenious comedy of errors." —Janet Maslin, The New York Times


"Satire at its best." —Newsweek


In this record-breaking bestseller, Timur Vermes imagines what would happen if Adolf Hilter reawakened in present-day Germany: YouTube stardom.


Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. It's the summer of 2011 and things have changed—no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognizes his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run by a woman.


People certainly recognize him—as a flawless impersonator who refuses to break character. The unthinkable happens, and the ranting Hitler goes viral, becomes a YouTube star, gets his own TV show, and people begin to listen. But the Fuhrer has another program with even greater ambition in mind—to set the country he finds in shambles back to rights.


With daring dark humor, Look Who's Back is a perceptive study of the cult of personality and of how individuals rise to fame and power in spite of what they preach.

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    • Library Journal

      May 15, 2015

      In the summer of 2011, Adolf Hitler--yes, the real one--suddenly wakes up in a vacant lot in Berlin and sets about attempting to restore the Third Reich. That's the somewhat implausible and rather transgressive premise of this wickedly satiric first novel. Homeless and penniless, he's taken in by a newspaper vendor with media connections who promises to help him get back on his feet. Hitler's "act" wins over the television executives who frequent the kiosk, and he soon is spouting Nazi dogma on a television comedy show, where he's regarded as a Hitler impersonator and knowingly ironic political comic, something like a German version of Stephen Colbert's right-wing pundit. Hitler is, of course, deadly serious, and the dissonance between his earnest bigotry and the vacuousness of our media-soaked age is the comic grist that propels the novel toward its truly ironic conclusion. VERDICT While German journalist Vermes has a good deal to say about the state of contemporary Germany, his reach here is more universal, as he's crafted a sardonic send-up of a media and a world where the message doesn't matter so long as your ratings are high and your videos go viral on YouTube.--Lawrence Rungren, Andover, MA

      Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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