But who exactly were the forgotten heroes who killed one of historys most notorious men? In Laurent Binets captivating debut novel, HHhH ( Himmlers Hirn heiBt Heydrich, or Himmlers brain is called Heydrich), we follow the lives of Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubiš, the Slovak and the Czech responsible for Heydrichs death. Retrieved January 15, 2013.Laurent Binets HHhH, winner of the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman, is “a work of breadth, and absolute originality” (Claude Lanzmann)Įveryone has heard of Reinhard Heydrich, “the Butcher of Prague.” And most have heard stories of his spectacular assassination at the hands of two Czechoslovakian partisans. 'National Book Critics Circle Names 2012 Award Finalists'.

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The English translation by Sam Taylor was published in the US by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on 24 April 2012 and in the UK by Harvill Secker on. HHhH has been translated into more than twenty languages. The Millions published the 'missing pages' in 2012. The editor also requested the cut of about twenty pages criticizing Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes, another novel about the SS in World War II that was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 2006. The title was suggested by Binet's publisher, Grasset, instead of the 'too sci-fi' working title Opération Anthropoïde.

The title is an initialism for Himmlers Hirn heißt Heydrich (' Himmler's brain is called Heydrich'), a quip about Heydrich in SS circles.

It is interlaced with the author's account of the process of researching and writing the book, his commentary about other literary and media treatments of the subject, and reflections about the extent to which the behavior of real people may of necessity be fictionalised in a historical novel. The novel follows the history of the operation and the lives of its protagonists-Reinhard Heydrich and his assassins Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš. The novel was awarded the 2010 Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman. The book recounts Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague during World War II. HHhH is the debut novel of French author Laurent Binet, published in 2010 by Grasset & Fasquelle.

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