Hhhh

R$ 82,90

Sinopse

Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942: two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent on a daring mission by London to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich - chief of the Nazi secret services, 'the hangman of Prague', 'the blond beast', 'the most dangerous man in the Third Reich'. His boss is Heinrich Himmler but everyone in the SS says 'Himmler's brain is called Heydrich', which in German spells HHhH. All the characters in HHhH are real. All the events depicted are true. But alongside the nerve-shredding preparations for the attack runs another story: when you are a novelist writing about real people, how do you resist the temptation to make things up?HHhH is a panorama of the Third Reich told through the life of one outstandingly brutal man, a story of unbearable heroism and loyalty, revenge and betrayal. It is improbably entertaining and electrifyingly modern, a moving and shattering work of fiction.

Participantes

Autor: Laurent Binet

Tradutor: Sam Taylor

Autor

LAURENT BINET

Laurent Binet
Laurent Binet (Paris, 1972) é escritor e professor nas universidades Paris III e Paris VIII. Seu livro HHhH (o cérebro de Himmler se chama Heydrich), relato em torno do assassinato do chefe da Gestapo, venceu o Goncourt de primeiro romance e lhe valeu um telefonema elogioso do então presidente Nicolas Sarkozy. Binet, no entanto, preferiu se vincular ao candidato socialista François Hollande e lançou no ano passado Rien ne se passe comme prévu, sobre os bastidores de sua campanha presidencial. Binet publicou ainda dois livros de não ficção, Forces et faiblesses de nos muqueuses e La vie professionnelle de Laurent B., este último um testemunho de sua experiência como professor em colégios parisienses