The Day We Had Hitler Home

2000 novel by Rodney Hall
0-330-36198-8OCLC45585099
Dewey Decimal
823/.914 21LC ClassPR9619.3.H285 D39 2000Preceded byThe Island in the Mind Followed byThe Last Love Story 

The Day We Had Hitler Home is a 2000 novel by the Australian author Rodney Hall.[1]

Synopsis

In 1919 a young German soldier, blinded by gas, joins the wrong queue of evacutees. He is also unable to speak and so cannot tell anyone his name, private first-class Adolf Hitler. As a result he mistakenly boards a steamer headed for Australia.

Awards and nominations

Critical reception

Joanna Giffiths in The Observer noted that the book "jerks the reader to attention by depositing Hitler into the plot, only to recede into opaque twists and obscuring quirkiness."[4]

Publication history

After the novel's initial publication by Picador in Australia in 2000[5] it was then published as follows:

  • Granta, UK, 2001[6]

It was also translated into Portuguese (2001) and Spanish (2002).[1]

See also

  • 2000 in Australian literature

References

  1. ^ a b "Austlit - The Day We Had Hitler Home". Austlit. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
  2. ^ "Rodney Hall OAM". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
  3. ^ "Austlit - The Day We Had Hitler Home - Awards". Austlit. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
  4. ^ ""G'day, Adolf, fancy a tinny?"". The Observer, 29 April 2001. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
  5. ^ "The Day We Had Hitler Home (Picador)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
  6. ^ "The Day We Had Hitler Home (Granta)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 6 July 2023.


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