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The smashhit hitler satire more than 3 million copies sold a brilliant book russell kane brilliant and hilarious ken follett a boxofficehit film now available on netflix a twopart bbc radio 4 dramatisation directed by and starring david threlfall shameless berlin, summer 2011. Adolf hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. Look whos back timur vermes paperback books online. Look who s back is a cutting satire on modern mediabloated, celebrityobsessed society, seen through the eyes of adolf hitler. You dont know whether to be amused or horrified by this book. Mar 18, 2015 look who s back by timur vermes, 97808570545, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Without the army, the reich chancellery and cute eve with blondie. Everyone who sees him believes he is a superbly nutty, fantastically accurate impersonator of hitler, a master of method acting. The new german fantasy novel imagines the fuhrer returning to berlin as the star of an alternative. It is the summer of 2011 and things have changed no eva braun, no nazi party, no war.
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Adolf hitler wakes up in berlin in 2011 to find the fatherland unrecognisable and, despite many technological advances, decidedly inferior to. Even though i had never heard of timur vermes before, i picked up this book out of curiosity and amusement, thanks to its amazing cover. Buy the paperback book look whos back by timur vermes at indigo. Now youll also know timur vermes, whose debut novel has created a sensation in germany. The holocaust did happen and its personal horrors are treated with empathy that hitler in hindsight could not share. While only the first part of this statement can apply to vermes so far, it is easy to see why look whos back will live long in readers memories around the world. Television by quercusbooks from desktop or your mobile device. Look who s back has sold more than 250,000 copies in its english editions, and rights were sold to 35 territories. Look whos back by timur vermes 2016, paperback for sale. Quercus hachette book group look whos back by timur. Look whos back, timur vermes girl with her head in. Er ist wieder da was going to ruffle some feathers.
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. Mar 30, 2015 look who s back by timur vermes summary when adolf hitler wakes up in 2011, the world is a completely different place. Janet maslin of the new york times called look whos back desperately funny an ingenious comedy of errors. The most notorious dictator ever, facing the 21st century without his military might and faithful aides. The novel combined to hitherto seldomexplored literary genres for german authors. The next stop on radio 4s literary journey across europe is timur vermes transgressive novel which topped the bestseller list in its native germany. What made the experience of listening to look whos back the most enjoyable. Time timur vermes recordbreaking bestseller, look whos back, is a satirical novel that imagines what would happen if. Click to read more about look who s back by timur vermes. How is unclear, one thing is clear he is here again. Jan 14, 2016 david wnendt wetlands directs this adaptation of the bestselling book by timur vermes, which sees adolf hitler wake up in presentday berlin. Jan 08, 2016 that is precisely the premise of timur vermes controversial novel, look whos back. Excellent narration really gets the most out of the characters and makes them quite memorable and distinct.
Look whos back by timur vermes summary when adolf hitler wakes up in 2011, the world is a completely different place. Vermes has created an ingenious comedy of errors in which the jokes are either on hitlers misapprehensions about the modern world or the modern worlds refusal to take him at face value. In 2007 he started to ghostwrite books, including a book by a socalled crime scene cleaner entitled what s left of death. And to his surprise, adolf finds himself in the middle of it all. Buy look who s back book online at best prices in india on. Buy look whos back book online at low prices in india. He studied history and politics and went on to become a journalist. In look whos back, hitler returns and hes amusing the. Buy look whos back book online at low prices in india look. A world away from downfall although closer kin to the bunker scene meme on youtube, look whos back is a fishoutofwater satire and a surprisingly insightful look at not only our own political culture but also how hitler first came to power in the first place. Jan 29, 2018 from the day of its original publication in germany in 20, timur vermes look whos back translated from the original title. You know his hair and mustache, which are caricatured with sharp, witty minimalism on the cover of look whos back, in which a baffled adolf hitler is returned to the even more baffled german people. In 2012 he published his debut novel, er ist wieder da.
And the tyrant in question is none other than adolf hitler. It casts adolf hitler as a rip van winkle figure, who awakes on a piece of waste ground in berlin in. Vermes has created an ingenious comedy of errors in which the jokes are either on hitler s misapprehensions about the modern world or the modern world s refusal to take him at face value. May 05, 2015 but the fuhrer has another program with even greater ambition in mindto set the country he finds in shambles back to rights. He has written for the abendzeitung and the cologne express and worked for various magazines. With daring humor, look whos back is a perceptive study of the cult of personality, of how individuals rise to fame and power in spite of what they preach. Apr 27, 2015 timur vermess debut novel has created a sensation in germany, been translated into many languages and generated endless essays asking whether its acceptable to laugh about hitler. The son of a german mother and a hungarian father who fled the country in 1956, timur vermes was born in nuremberg in 1967. With daring 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. Timur vermes s debut novel has created a sensation in germany, been translated into many languages and generated endless essays asking whether its acceptable to laugh about hitler.
What will he do next in fact, this question book and answers. The rest is taken care of by history or the tv ratings. Previously a ghostwriter, his first novel look who s back er ist wieder da, which has sold over a million copies in germany, is a satire about adolf hitler and 21stcentury germany. The hungry and the fat, would, i feel, be absolutely perfect for a reading group. But the fuhrer has another programme with even greater ambition to set the country he finds a shambles back to rights. The novel smartly uses its assorted events as an attempt to recreate the person of adolf hitler, and the result is fascinating. Time timur vermes recordbreaking bestseller look whos back is a satirical novel that imagines what would happen if hilter were reborn in presentday germany. Timur vermes s debut novel has created a sensation in germany, been translated into many languages and generated endless essays asking whether its. The plot of the book look whos back by timur vermes is simple to a disgrace. Timur vermes is a german writer who back in 2012 published look whos back, a supposedly comic novel based on the premise that adolf hitler wakes up in 2011 berlin, destitute and confused. Look whos back by timur vermes, 9781623653330, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. The book was a massive success in germany, selling more than 1. Mar 23, 2014 incredible though that may sound to anyone who lived through the second world war, that is the scenario sketched out in look who s back, a satirical novel by timur vermes, which topped the. Look whos back by timur vermes free ebooks download.
Its really quite funny, and will appeal to anyone who isnt a humorless adherent to the church of holocaustianity which, alas, means almost. It is a fiction but in the process it is a thought provoking novel that amuses and challenges in equal measure, to enjoy the book isnt to. May 05, 2014 look whos back translates er ist wieder da, timur vermess bestselling novel over 400,000 copies, and tens of thousands of audiobooks published at 19. Look whos back is published by maclehose press on 3 april.
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