HHhH, translated from the French by Sam Taylor, charts Heydrich's rise through the Nazi ranks and Germany's march to war. is a gripping novel that brings us closer to history as it really happened.” - Alan Riding, The New York Times Book Review 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.Ī Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionĪ New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
In Laurent Binet's mesmerizing debut, we follow Jozef Gabcík and Jan Kubiš 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. 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.
The basis for the major motion picture, "The Man with the Iron Heart " available on streaming and home video. has a vitality very different from that of most historical fiction.” -James Wood, The New Yorker
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