Hhhh binet5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Ingenious and inventive, both Bolano’s The Third Reich and HHhH are knockout blows in the boxing match of genre-defying literature. What does connect these books, however, is their unsurpassable writing. Though it might be entertaining to see how Orhan Pamuk might tackle Panzer movements, or how Mario Vargas Llosa’s Uncle Adolf and the Star might sell in the bookshops, thankfully, this is all just coincidence. Or, that there’s a new fashion in foreign fiction. For those uninitiated, Heydrich oversaw the Final Solution and the Holocaust of the Jews in Europe.Īfter reviewing Roberto Bolano’s The Third Reich back in January, and now with Laurent Binet’s HHhH, you’d be forgiven for thinking my obsession for Nazis has taken a turn for the worse. very special bad guy, Reinhard Heydrich during World War II. HHhH is a unique retelling of Operation Anthropoid, which concerned the assassination attempt on SS-Obergruppenführer, i.e. HHhH by Laurent Binet, Translation by Sam Tayorįarrar, Straus and Giroux, 336 pp. ![]()
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