![]() ![]() ![]() The style of the narration is truly awesome. A book that blows you away, told with elegance and grace, a fast-paced novel about the Second World War. A work at once thrilling and deeply engrossing, a profound meditation on the nature of writing and the debt we owe to history. A seemingly effortless blend of historical truth and remarkable imagination. ![]() Librarian’s CommentsĪ captivating and matchless historical debut novel. HHhH won the prestigious Prix Goncourt du premier roman and the Prix des Lecteurs du Livre de Poche. It is improbably entertaining and electrifyingly modern, a moving and shattering work of fiction. HHhH is a panorama of the Third Reich told through the life of one outstandingly brutal man, a story of unbearable heroism and loyalty, revenge and betrayal. But alongside the nerve-shredding preparations for the attack runs another story: when you are a novelist writing about real people, how do you resist the temptation to make things up? His boss is Heinrich Himmler but everyone in the SS says ‘Himmler’s brain is called Heydrich’, which in German spells HHhH.Īll the characters in HHhH are real. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942: two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent on a daring mission by London to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Nazi secret services, ‘the hangman of Prague’, ‘the blond beast’, ‘the most dangerous man in the Third Reich’. Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. Translated from the original French by Sam Taylor 2014 Longlist ![]()
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