Look Who's Back

By: Timur Vermes

Narrated by: David Threlfall

Length: 1 hr and 51 mins

Publisher's summary

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.

©2017 Bastei Lübbe (Lübbe Audio) (P)2017 Lübbe Audio

Good but feels incomplete

I originally watched the film version. I was very impressed with the work put into this version of the book it is in fact not an audiobook at all but a BBC radio play. Excellent voice work from all involved. I did however feel the ending lacked quite a bit. The film version had a much more conclusive and interesting ending, I won’t spoil but it at least attempted to wrap things up which I don’t feel the book did even in the least. Maybe there’s a part two I simply haven’t encountered.

I’ll also say my favorite line from the film was not part of the original book. When Hitler visits the modern right wing party and asks if they have read Mein Kampf they respond quite rightly that it’s hard to come by in Germany. In the film he responds is that your reason for reading it or not reading it? I thought that was a rather smashing good line because in the very popular culture of saying no book should ever be banned, people will covertly read mein kampf under the rather thin guise that they’re just trying to read all the banned books. This wasn’t present in the novel neither was the rather clever ending that wrapped up the events of the story and brought everything to a close. I felt the ending here felt incomplete. I however felt it was a modern marvel of good voice acting and very worth the $5.

Not a book

Came here to listen to a book but got a condensed radio play instead. Ripoff