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Laurent Binet, Sam Taylor: HHhH (2012, Penguin Random House)

336 pages

English language

Published June 22, 2012 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-1-84655-479-7
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This is a triumph. A novel on the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich wrapped in the author demolishing the fourth wall from the beginning, walking the reader through his struggles of what it would mean to turn a documentary into a novel and then not doing it, except sometimes. Walking us through other authors writing about this. And where in the beginning his approach is reminiscent of Patrick Modiano, towards the end yet another unexplained layer enters that mixes the narratives in a more (Paul) Auster way.
I'm not even mad I accidentally bought the French audiobook first.

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Subjects

  • World war, 1939-1945, fiction
  • Czechoslovakia, fiction
  • Fiction, historical, general
  • Nazis, fiction
  • Germany, fiction