HHhH has been translated into more than twenty languages. The Millions published the "missing pages" in 2012. The editor also requested the cut of about twenty pages criticizing Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes, another novel about the SS in World War II that was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 2006. The title was suggested by Binet's publisher, Grasset, instead of the "too sci-fi" working title Opération Anthropoïde. The title is an initialism for Himmlers Hirn heißt Heydrich (" Himmler's brain is called Heydrich"), a quip about Heydrich in SS circles. It is interlaced with the author's account of the process of researching and writing the book, his commentary about other literary and media treatments of the subject, and reflections about the extent to which the behavior of real people may of necessity be fictionalised in a historical novel. The novel follows the history of the operation and the lives of its protagonists-Reinhard Heydrich and his assassins Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš. The novel was awarded the 2010 Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman. The book recounts Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague during World War II. HHhH is the debut novel of French author Laurent Binet, published in 2010 by Grasset & Fasquelle.
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