| HHhH Contributor(s): Binet, Laurent (Author), Taylor, Sam (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1250033349 ISBN-13: 9781250033345 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - World War Ii - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 5.5" W x 8.27" (0.62 lbs) 327 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: HHhH blew me away... 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 FictionA 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. 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. 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Taylor, Sam: - Sam Taylor has written for The Guardian, Financial Times, Vogue and Esquire, and has translated such works as the award-winning HHhH by Laurent Binet, and the internationally-bestselling The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair by Joël Dicker. |