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HHhH

by Laurent Binet · 2010

Literary Fiction · ranked #198 in category

The story of Operation Anthropoid — the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, head of the SS, by Czech and Slovak resistance fighters in 1942 — is interrupted constantly by the narrator's self-questioning about the ethics and limitations of fictionalising real historical events. Binet's Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman winner is both a WWII thriller and a radical meditation on historical fiction.

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The verdict

Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2010 · 2010s
Author
Laurent Binet
Standing
Essential Read

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