Look Who’s Back

　　1945年以來，有許多關於希特勒下落的傳說。但他不是死於柏林地堡爆炸，也沒有藏身南美洲！2011年夏天，希特勒醒來了，置身景物不再熟悉的柏林街頭。親信不在身邊，帝國總理府不見蹤跡，而且土耳其人滿街跑，波蘭依舊存在，德國現在是女總理當家……希特勒原先認識的世界已徹底改變。

　　一身納粹軍服，原汁原味的元首腔調……希特勒因為太像希特勒而被電視節目製作公司相中，第一次演出就造成轟動，節目片段在youtube的點閱率急速增加，德國第一大報《畫報》也急著安排專訪。見識到網路傳布消息的力量，對改造德國懷抱崇高使命感的希特勒知道，他的影響力將比66年前更強大……

　　希特勒與納粹一直是德國的禁忌，作者將希特勒塑造成無害的小丑，以黑色幽默的方式挑戰讀者的底線；並透過希特勒，觀察媒體如何被善用與濫用。《希特勒回來了！》自2012年出版以來，不斷引發討論話題，德國《南德意志報》認為，這個「奇怪的希特勒」正在挑動德國人的神經。

　　從街頭流浪漢變身媒體寵兒，看21世紀的希特勒如何翻轉全世界！

　　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.

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作者簡介
　　
　　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.

　　Jamie Bulloch's translations include Ruth Maier's Diary, Portrait of a Mother as a Young Women by F. C. Delius, and novels by Paulus Hochgatterer and Daniel Glattauer.