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HHhH (2009)

by Laurent Binet(Favorite Author)

4.04 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

2246760011 (ISBN13: 9782246760016)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Grasset

review 1: Sort of does for historical novels what Stewart Lee does for jokes, in that - throughout - the author shares the actual process of writing a book based on stuff that actually happened. How can he know what people were thinking ? How can he make the story entirely factually accurate and still hope to hold the reader's attention ? There are moments of overlap, too, where his life becomes part of the weave of this clever but entirely involving book. Quite unlike anything I've read before, and really good.
review 2: Laurent Binet writes about Operation Anthropoid, a mission to assassinate Reinhard Heyrich, The Blonde Beast', Himmler's and Hitler's henchman in Czechoslovakia and as he writes this story he discusses how he should or should not compose it; should he g... moreive fictional attributes to his characters, should he surmise what they felt or what they said etc. Sometimes this was interesting, as the author was thoroughly immersed in it and living this incident whilst writing it, but sometimes it became intrusive and I felt the book did not develop until half way through because of it. However, it is a good read, well thought out and written but also horrifying as always because of the Nazi retaliations when their golden boy was eliminated. less

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