David Annand, Sunday TelegraphĪn engrossing literary experiment that still contains enough hard facts to function as a terrific yarn. Binet's resets the path of the historical novel. Their mission resets the path of history. Wells TowerĪ gripping thriller and a moving testament to the heroes of the Czechoslovakian resistance. HHhH is an astonishing book-absorbing, moving, for the agony and acuity with which its author engages the problem of making literary art from unbearable historical fact. It's one of the best historical novels I've ever come across. Binet's style fuses it all together: a neutral, journalistic honesty sustained with a fiction writer's zeal and story-telling instincts.
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 HHhH is a highly original piece of work, at once charming, moving, and gripping Martin Amis All the details have such persuasive force that they remain indelibly recorded in the memory of the reader Mario Vargas LlosaĪ wonderful, ambitious book, and a triumph of translation Colum McCannīy the time I got to the last page of Binet's masterpiece, I had to close my eyes and rethink history. something of a Greek tragedy and of the splendid thriller. HHhH is a major novel, a feat of prowess, and a literary accomplishment La Vie LittéraireĪ suspenseful work of absolute originality Claude Lanzmann, director of SHOAH More than just a book Laurent Binet not only tells a story, he shows the story itself being written. likely to make you gasp, laugh and cry often within a few pages Savidge ReadsĪ novel of great verve and originality… a heart-quickening climax and the undeserved satisfaction of feeling privy to what really happened Strong WordsĪ great success. All is can say is that it has the same gravity-defying balance of weight and light as early Milan Kundera Janice Turner, The Times Laurent Binet’s HHhH is hard to categorise. Vividly recreates the assassination of Heydrich and its consequences John Le Carré, Telegraph
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