An astonishing, unforgettable novel: a thrilling Second World War assassination plot told with rare literary brilliance.HHhH is a highly original piece of work, at once charming, moving, and gripping. –Martin Amis

Laurent Binet has given a new dimension to the non-fiction novel by weaving his writerly anxieties about the genre into the narrative, but his story is no less compelling for that, and the climax is unforgettable. –David Lodge

A wonderful, ambitious book, and a triumph of translation. –Colum McCann

Magnificent … unsurpassable … told with grace and elegance … exerts a hypnotic sway over the reader … something of a Greek tragedy and of the splendid thriller … All the details have such persuasive force that they remain indelibly recorded in the memory of the reader. –Mario Vargas Llosa

By the time I got to the last page of Binet’s masterpiece, I had to close my eyes and rethink history. I’m rethinking it still. –Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story

‘Extraordinary first novel…a literary triumph…The book’s final section, which recounts the assassination and subsequent manhunt in minute detail, is a masterpiece of tension, and its closing pages are extremely moving. Very few page-turners come as smart and original as this’ –The Times

Mindblowing…obsessed with the past but gleaming with radical innovation, it’s urgent and new and terrifying and beautiful and pretty and much the best thing that’s happened in fiction for ages –Dazed and Confused

  • Hardcover:336 pages
  • Publisher:Harvill Secker (3 May 2012)
  • LanguageEnglish
  • ISBN-10:1846554799
  • ISBN-13:978-1846554797
  • Product Dimensions: 22 x 13.8 x 3.1 cm