A magnificent book." - Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature It's one of the best historical novels I've ever come across." - Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero Binet's style fuses it all together: a neutral, journalistic honesty sustained with a fiction writer's zeal and story-telling instincts. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. A seamless blend of memory, actuality, and Binet's own remarkable imagination, HHhH is at once thrilling and intellectually engrossing-a fast-paced novel of the Second World War that is also a profound meditation on the debt we owe to history. In Laurent Binet's mesmerizing debut, we follow Jozef Gab?ik and Jan Kubis 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. It's one of the best historical novels I've ever come across."-Bret Easton Ellis, author of "American Psycho" and "Less Than Zero "A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction A "Financial Times" Best Book of the Year A "New York Times Book Review "Editors' Choice HHhH: "Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich," or "Himmler's brain is called Heydrich." The most lethal man in Hitler's cabinet, Reinhard Heydrich seemed indestructible-until two exiled operatives, a Slovak and a Czech, killed him and changed the course of history.
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