A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius did it for the memoir, Reservoir Dogs for action films, and now HHhH does it for the historical novel. HHhH is paced like a thriller, in which the endgame is the fate of the world.'- Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Every now and then a piece of work comes along that undermines the assumptions upon which all previous works have been built.These pieces of art complicate the genre for everyone that follows. HHhH succeeds both as fiction and as history.It also has a hell of a plot.' - San Francisco Chronicle 'One of the best and most original novels I've read in years. Captivating.'-James Wood, The New Yorker 'Brilliant. This is characteristic Binet prose-pulsing with life, lit by a wisp of dry humor, fully imagined.'-Carolyn Kellog, Los Angeles Times 'Binet has threaded his novel with a contemporary story, which is the drama of the book's own making.The tone is clever, witty, casually postmodern. what can we truly know about history.) Go out, find this book, devour it, and prepare to find yourself changed, in ways you could not expect., 'Marvelous. I can't imagine anyone who would read this book and consequently not feel interested in the essential questions of historiography i.e.

(From a different lens, it represents the avant garde of teaching history.

I cannot recommend this book more highly than saying, despite the cliche, that it is an actual must-read, both for its important content, but as importantly, for its avant-garde nature as it pushes forward the boundaries of historical fiction. I really don't know how to praise this book further than to say that it changed my conception of the possibilities of literature.

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 Gabc k 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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