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Biographical note
Laurent Binet lives and works in France. His first novel, HHhH, was an international bestseller which won the prestigious Prix Goncourt du premier roman, among other prizes. The 7th Function of Language won the Prix de la FNAC and Prix Interallié. Civilisations is a bestseller that has won the Grand Prix de l'Académie française. Sam Taylor is an award-winning literary translator and novelist. He has translated more than 60 books from French including Laurent Binet's HHhH and Leila Slimani's Lullaby.<b>[An] extraordinary true story... </b>made still better by the way in which Laurent Binet weaves in his own exploits as researcher and detective to uncover the truth
Week
<i>HHhH </i>is a highly original piece of work, at once charming, moving, and gripping
- Martin Amis,
<i>HHhH</i> blew me away. Binet’s style fuses it all together: a neutral, journalistic honesty sustained with a fiction writer’s zeal and story-telling instincts. It’s one of the best historical novels I’ve ever come across.
- Brett Easton Ellis,
Magnificent ... unsurpassable ... told with grace and elegance ... exerts a hypnotic sway over the reader ... something of a Greek tragedy and of the splendid <i>thriller </i>... 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,
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,
A suspenseful work of absolute originality
- Claude Lanzmann, director of SHOAH,
A genuine tour de force
L'Humanite
A great success ... a terrifying story ... a breathless thriller
La Provence