The Day We Had Hitler Home (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
An audacious work of alternate history literary fiction, "The Day We Had Hitler Home" opens in 1919 when a young German soldier, blinded by gas and rendered mute by throat blisters, joins the wrong queue of evacuees and boards a steamer bound for a remote fishing port in New South Wales, delivering a bewildered Adolf Hitler to the celebrations of an Australian town just as the Versailles treaty plants the seeds of European catastrophe, where he briefly enters the life of Audrey McNeil, an aspiring filmmaker who seizes on the strange visitor as a weapon in her own domestic war before following him to Munich, witnessing the rise of fascism firsthand, and slowly transforming from observer into opponent as Hall constructs a coming-of-age story that crackles with the sensory energy of the modern world, aeroplanes, jazz, and film reels, asking what complicity looks like when history is still young enough to refuse.
Author: Rodney Hall
Format: Paperback
Published: 2000, Picador
Genre: Fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
An audacious work of alternate history literary fiction, "The Day We Had Hitler Home" opens in 1919 when a young German soldier, blinded by gas and rendered mute by throat blisters, joins the wrong queue of evacuees and boards a steamer bound for a remote fishing port in New South Wales, delivering a bewildered Adolf Hitler to the celebrations of an Australian town just as the Versailles treaty plants the seeds of European catastrophe, where he briefly enters the life of Audrey McNeil, an aspiring filmmaker who seizes on the strange visitor as a weapon in her own domestic war before following him to Munich, witnessing the rise of fascism firsthand, and slowly transforming from observer into opponent as Hall constructs a coming-of-age story that crackles with the sensory energy of the modern world, aeroplanes, jazz, and film reels, asking what complicity looks like when history is still young enough to refuse.