[An] extraordinary true story... made still better by the way in which Laurent Binet weaves in his own exploits as researcher and detective to uncover the truth
Week
HHhH is a highly original piece of work, at once charming, moving, and gripping
Martin Amis HHhH 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 thriller ... 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