Look Who's Back
2016 Longlist

Look Who’s Back

Translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch

ABOUT
THE BOOK

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.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Timur
Vermes

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. This is his first novel.

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. This is his first novel.

NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

In this literary work Adolf Hitler wakes up in Berlin in 2011. What happens then? This humorous and at the same time frightening political satire describes and violently criticizes today’s western culture.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Date published
05/05/2015
Author
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Translator
Jamie Bulloch
Translation
Translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch

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