Captivating . . . [HHhH] has a vitality very different from that of most historical fiction. James Wood, The New Yorker
The basis for the major motion picture, The Man with the Iron Heart available on streaming and home video.
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.
A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
AFinancial TimesBest Book of the Year
ANew York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice
Laurent Binetwas born in Paris, France, in 1972. His first novel,
HHhH, was named one of the fifty best books of 2015 by
The New York Timesand received the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman. He is a professor at the University of Paris III, where he lectures on French literature. His other novels include
The Seventh Function of Languageand
Civilizations. A literary tour de force . . . [HHhH] is a gripping novel that brings us closer to history as it really happened. Alan Riding, The New York Times Book Review
[An] extraordinary first novel . . .HHhH, translated from the French by Sam Taylor, charts Heydrich's rise through the Nazi ranks and Germany's march to war . . . [to] the training in Britain of the Czech and Sloval“-
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