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Look Who's Back

Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up from a 66-year sleep in his subterranean Berlin bunker to find the Germany he knew entirely changed: Internet-driven media spreads ideas in minutes and fumes celebrity obsession; immigration has produced multicultural neighborhoods bringing together people of varying race, ethnicity, and religion; and the most powerful person in government is a woman. Hitler is immediately recognized ... as an impersonator of uncommon skill. The public assumes the fulminating leader of the Nazi party is a performer who is always in character, and soon his inevitable viral appeal begets YouTube stardom, begets television celebrity on a Turkish-born comedian's show. His bigoted rants are mistaken for a theatrical satire — exposing prejudice and misrepresentation — and his media success emboldens Hitler to start his own political party and set the country he finds a shambles back to rights. With daring and dark humor, Look Who's Back skewers the absurdity and depravity of the cult of personality in modern media culture.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 352
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780857052926
  • Characters
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Settings
  • Berlin
  • Genres
  • fiction, humor, contemporary, germany, audiobook, comedy, novels, politics
  • Release date
  • 2014