HHhH: A Novel [Paperback]

HHhHblew me away... It's one of the best historical novels I've ever come across. Bret Easton Ellis, author ofAmerican PsychoandLess Than Zero

A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
AFinancial TimesBest Book of the Year
ANew York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice

HHhH: Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich, or Himmler's brain is called Heydrich. The most lethal man in Hitler's cabinet, Reinhard Heydrich seemed indestructibleuntil two exiled operatives, a Slovak and a Czech, killed him and changed the course of history.

In Laurent Binet's mesmerizing debut, we follow Jozef Gabc?k and Jan Kubia from their dramatic escape from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to their fatal attack on Heydrich and their own brutal deaths in the basement of a Prague church. A seamless blend of memory, actuality, and Binet's own remarkable imagination, HHhH is at once thrilling and intellectually engrossinga fast-paced novel of the Second World War that is also a profound meditation on the debt we owe to history.

Laurent Binet was born in Paris, France, in 1972. He is the author ofLa Vie professionnelle de Laurent B., a memoir of his experience teaching in secondary schools in Paris. In March 2010, his debut novel,HHhH,won the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman. Laurent Binet is a professor at the University of Paris III, where he lectures on French literature.

HHhHblew 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, author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero

Unsurpassable... Told with elegance and grace... A magnificent book. Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

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