HHhH
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<P><B>“<I>HHhH</I> blew me away... It’s one of the best historical novels I’ve ever come across.”—Bret Easton Ellis, author of <I>American Psycho</I> and </B><I><B>Less Than Zero<BR><BR></B></I>A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction<BR>A <I>Financial Times</I> Best Book of the Year<BR>A <I>New York Times Book Review </I>Editors' Choice<BR><BR>"Unsurpassable... Told with elegance and grace... A magnificent book."—Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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. 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.
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