Look Who's Back - Hardcover

Vermes, Timur

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1623653339 ISBN 13: 9781623653330

Verlag: Maclehose Pr, 2015

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"a hilarious, yet poignant look at today's world through the eyes of one of its most horrific villains . . . the political and social satires translate will through the language barrier as the translator, Jamie Bulloch, did a fantastic job in the writing." ""Seattle Post Intelligencer"""

"thrillingly transgressive" ""The Guardian"""

an "Independent" Best Books of the Year selection

"Thrillingly transgressive" ""The Guardian"""

An "Independent" Best Books of the Year selection

"Very funny" ""Financial Times"""

""Look Who's Back "offers searing cultural and political commentary in the guise of a wildly entertaining story." ""Paste Magazine"""

A "New York Times" Summer Reading Pick

"Look Who's Back," the film, is coming to Netflix April 9, 2016!

An "Independent" Best Books of the Year selection A "New York Times" Summer Reading Pick

Reseña del editor:

"What would happen if Adolf Hitler woke up in modern-day Berlin? In a bestselling satirical novel, he'd end up a TV comedy star . . . [Look Who's Back] has unsurprisingly sparked debate in a country that has grappled for decades with Hitler's unconscionable legacy."-Time
Timur Vermes' record-breaking bestseller, Look Who's Back, is a satirical novel that imagines what would happen if Hilter reawakened in present-day Germany. The book was a massive success in Germany, selling more than 1.5 million copies. Janet Maslin of The New York Times called Look Who's Back"desperately funny . . . an ingenious comedy of errors."
In the novel, Adolf Hitler wakes up in 2011 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.

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• Verlag: Maclehose Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1623653339
• ISBN 13: 9781623653330
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 313