Laurent Binet, trans. from the French by Sam Taylor. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-374-16991-6
Taking its title from the German for “Himmler’s brain is called Heydrich,” Binet’s tour de force debut tells two stories: primarily that of the daring mission to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, the prominent Nazi Protector of Bohemia and Moravia...
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Laurent Binet, trans. from the French by Sam Taylor. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-374-26156-6
Binet, author of the Prix Goncourt–winning HHhH, ups the metafictional ante with The Seventh Function of Language, which draws a detective story out of the true details surrounding the death of French philosopher Roland Barthes. Barthes was the...
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Laurent Binet, trans. from the French by Sam Taylor. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-60081-5
Binet (The 7th Function of Language) executes a daring and often delightful counterfactual history of transatlantic conquest. Around the year 1000, Greenlanders and Vikings find their way to the Americas, landing in Cuba and Panama. Here, Binet...
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Laurent Binet, trans. from the French by Sam Taylor. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-61460-7
Binet (HHhH) paints an entertaining and layered portrait of art and politics in Renaissance Florence. The novel is largely composed of letters discovered in a 19th-century Tuscan antique shop by the narrator, a French tourist, who commits to...
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