Laurent Binet - Böcker

I februari 1980 blir den kände litteraturforskaren Roland Barthes påkörd i Paris när han korsar gatan efter en lunch hos president Mitterrand. En månad senare avlider han i sviterna efter olyckan. Men tänk om det inte var en olycka? Tänk om Barthe...

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Florence, New Year's Day 1557. As dawn breaks, a painter is discovered lying on the floor of a church, stabbed through the heart. Above him, the paintings he laboured over for more than a decade. At his home, a hidden painting scandalously depicti...

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Navet i Laurent Binets intrikata dokumentärroman HHhH är ett av andra världskrigets mest omskrivna attentat, det mot Reinhard Heydrich, riksprotektor i Böhmen-Mähren och chef för Rikssäkerhetsöverstyrelsen, i Prag 27 maj 1942. Två män från den tje...

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I februari 1980 blir den kände litteraturforskaren Roland Barthes påkörd i Paris när han korsar gatan efter en lunch hos president Mitterrand. En månad senare avlider han i sviterna efter olyckan. Men tänk om det inte var en olycka? Tänk om Barthe...

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It's world history. But not as we know it. c.1000AD: Erik the Red's daughter heads south from Greenland 1492: Columbus does not discover America 1531: the Incas invade Europe Freydis is the leader of a band of Viking warriors who get as far as Pan...

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Binets tredje roman - efter succén med den intellektuella thrillern Språkets sjunde funktion - är en våghalsig lek med världshistorien. Tänk om Columbus inte hade kommit tillbaka tomhänt från Amerika och om inkakungen Atahualpa istället hade erövr...

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 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 th...

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'One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels you'll read this year' - Observer Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It's February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand. B...

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"e;Captivating . . . [HHhH] has a vitality very different from that of most historical fiction."e; -James Wood, The New Yorker The basis for the major motion picture, "e;The Man with the Iron Heart "e; available on streaming and ho...

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERTwo 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...

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'One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels you ll read this year' - ObserverRoland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It s February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand. Ba...

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It's world history. But not as we know it.c.1000AD: Erik the Red's daughter heads south from Greenland1492: Columbus does not discover America1531: the Incas invade EuropeFreydis is the leader of a band of Viking warriors who get as far as Panama....

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'There is no living writer whose new books I fall on with greater delight than Laurent Binet. . . Perspectives is a proper treat' Naomi Alderman 'A dazzling romp' Guardian Florence,1557. As dawn breaks, a painter is discovered lying on the floor o...

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*LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2026*'There is no living writer whose new books I fall on with greater delight than Laurent Binet. . . Perspectives is a proper treat' Naomi Alderman'A dazzling romp' GuardianFlorence,1557. As dawn breaks,...

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Brought to you by Penguin.Florence, New Year's Day 1557. As dawn breaks, a painter is discovered lying on the floor of a church, stabbed through the heart. Above him, the paintings he laboured over for more than a decade. At his home, a hidden pai...

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Florence, New Year's Day 1557. As dawn breaks, a painter is discovered lying on the floor of a church, stabbed through the heart. Above him, the paintings he laboured over for more than a decade. At his home, a hidden painting scandalously depicti...

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Was, wenn in der Geschichte Europas zwei Dinge anders gelaufen waren? Erstens: Die Wikinger waren mit Pferden und eisernen Waffen bis nach Sudamerika gesegelt. Zweitens: Kolumbus hatte Amerika nicht entdeckt. In diesem Fall erobern die Inkas Europ...

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