HHhH by Laurent Binet

HHhH by Laurent Binet

'HHhH blew me away. Binet’s style fuses it all together: a neutral, journalistic honesty sustained with a fiction writer’s zeal and story-telling instincts. It’s one of the best historical novels I’ve ever come across.' Bret Easton Ellis Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942: two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent on a daring mission by London to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Nazi secret services, 'the hangman of Prague', 'the blond beast', 'the most dangerous man in the Third Reich'. His boss is Heinrich Himmler but everyone in the SS says 'Himmler's brain is called Heydrich', which in German spells HHhH. All the characters in HHhH are real. All the events depicted are true. But alongside the nerve-shredding preparations for the attack runs another story: when you are a novelist writing about real people, how do you resist the temptation to make things up? HHhH is a panorama of the Third Reich told through the life of one outstandingly brutal man, a story of unbearable heroism and loyalty, revenge and betrayal. It is improbably entertaining and electrifyingly modern, a moving and shattering work of fiction.

Vividly recreates the assassination of Heydrich and its consequences -- John Le Carré * Telegraph *
Laurent Binet’s HHhH is hard to categoriseAll is can say is that it has the same gravity-defying balance of weight and light as early Milan Kundera -- Janice Turner * The Times *
Utterly amazing ... likely to make you gasp, laugh and cry often within a few pages * Savidge Reads *
A novel of great verve and originality… a heart-quickening climax and the undeserved satisfaction of feeling privy to what really happened * Strong Words *
HHhH is a highly original piece of work, at once charming, moving, and gripping -- Martin Amis

Laurent Binet lives and works in France. His first novel, HHhH, was an international bestseller which won the prestigious Prix Goncourt du premier roman, among other prizes. The 7th Function of Language won the Prix de la FNAC and Prix Interallié. Civilisations is a bestseller that has won the Grand Prix de l'Académie française.

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ISBN 13	9781846554797
ISBN 10	1846554799
Titre	HHhH
Auteur	Laurent Binet
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Type de reliure	Hardback
Éditeur	Vintage Publishing
Année de publication	2012-05-03
Nombre de pages	336
Prix	Winner of Publishers Publicity Circle: Hardback Fiction Award 2013 (UK), Short-listed for national Book Critics Circle Fiction Award 2013 (United States), Short-listed for Bookseller Industry Awards: Publicity Campaign of the Year 2013 (UK), Short-listed for IBW Book Award 2013 (UK), Short-listed for Oxford Wiedenfeld Translation Prize 2013 (UK), Long-listed for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013 (UK)
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