Binding: Paperback
Description: Captivating H Hh H has a vitality very different from that of most historical fiction. James Wood The New Yorker The basis for the major motion picture " The Man with the Iron Heart " available on streaming and home video. H Hh H: " 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 Kubi 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 H Hh H 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. 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
Title: Hhhh A Novel
Author(s): Binet Laurent
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250033345
Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/23/2013
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction