HHhH

Author(s): Laurent Binet; Sam Taylor (Translator)

General Fiction

"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 HHhHare 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? HHhHis 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."


Product Information

Winner of Publishers Publicity Circle Hardback Fiction Award 2013. Shortlisted for National Book Critics Circle Awards: Fiction 2013. Long-listed for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013.

HHhH is Laurent Binet's first novel. He lives and works in France. HHhH won the prestigious Prix Goncourt du premier roman and the Prix des Lecteurs du Livre de Poche.

General Fields

  • : 9780099555643
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Vintage
  • : December 2012
  • : March 2013
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Laurent Binet; Sam Taylor (Translator)
  • : Paperback