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The Day We Had Hitler Home

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The Day We Had Hitler Home
First edition
AuthorRodney Hall
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherPicador, Australia
Publication date
2000
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages351 pp
ISBN0-330-36198-8
OCLC45585099
823/.914 21
LC ClassPR9619.3.H285 D39 2000
Preceded 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

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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

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Critical reception

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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

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

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

See also

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References

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  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.