Bøker av Laurent Binet

'One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels you'll read this year' - Observer`The most outrageously entertaining novel of the year... A joy' - Philip HensherRoland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van.

This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942: two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent on a daring mission by London to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich - chief of the Nazi secret services, 'the hangman of Prague', 'the blond beast', 'the most dangerous man in the Third Reich'.

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 depicting Maria de Medici, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Florence, as a naked Venus. Who is the murderer? Who is behind the painting? As the city erupts in chaos, Giorgio Vasari, the great art historian, is picked to lead the investigation.Letters fly back and forth carrying news of political plots and speculation about the killer's identity - between Maria and her aunt Catherine de' Medici, the queen of France; between Catherine and her scheming agents in Florence; and between Vasari and his friend Michelangelo. Meanwhile, the Pope is banning books and branding works of art immoral. And the truth, when it comes to light, is as shocking as the bold new artworks that have made Florence the red-hot centre of Europe.Bursting with characters and colour, Perspectives is a mystery like no other that shows us Renaissance Florence as we've never seen it before - a dazzling, hugely entertaining novel of court machinations, murder and art.

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 depicting Maria de Medici, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Florence, as a naked Venus. Who is the murderer? Who is behind the painting? As the city erupts in chaos, Giorgio Vasari, the great art historian, is picked to lead the investigation.Letters fly back and forth carrying news of political plots and speculation about the killer's identity - between Maria and her aunt Catherine de' Medici, the queen of France; between Catherine and her scheming agents in Florence; and between Vasari and his friend Michelangelo. Meanwhile, the Pope is banning books and branding works of art immoral. And the truth, when it comes to light, is as shocking as the bold new artworks that have made Florence the red-hot centre of Europe.Bursting with characters and colour, Perspectives is a mystery like no other that shows us Renaissance Florence as we've never seen it before - a dazzling, hugely entertaining novel of court machinations, murder and art.

"Captivating . . . [HHhH] has a vitality very different from that of most historical fiction." -James Wood, The New YorkerThe basis for the major motion picture, "The Man with the Iron Heart " available on streaming and home video.HHhH: "Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich," or "Himmler's brain is called Heydrich." The most lethal man in Hitler's cabinet, Reinhard Heydrich seemed indestructible-until two exiled operatives, a Slovak and a Czech, killed him and changed the course of history.In Laurent Binet's mesmerizing debut, we follow Jozef Gabcík and Jan KubiS from their dramatic escape from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to their fatal attack on Heydrich and their own brutal deaths in the basement of a Prague church. A seamless blend of memory, actuality, and Binet's own remarkable imagination, HHhH is at once thrilling and intellectually engrossing-a fast-paced novel of the Second World War that is also a profound meditation on the debt we owe to history. A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionA Financial Times Best Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

L'auteur réinvente l'histoire du monde en imaginant notamment que l'Europe a été envahie par les Incas, dans une version inversée de la conquête du Pérou par Pizarro. De Cuzco à Aix-la-Chapelle, et jusqu'à la bataille de Lépante, il déroule ainsi le récit d'une mondialisation renversée telle qu'elle aurait pu avoir lieu dans d'autres conditions.

So, the stage is set for a Europe ruled by Incas and, when the Aztecs arrive on the scene, for a great war that will change history forever. Civilisations is a wildly entertaining counterfactual story about the modern world, colonisation, empire-building and the eternal human quest for domination.

Festlig lek med verdenshistorien.Hva om Columbus ikke hadde returnert fra Amerika og inkaene i stedet hadde erobret Europa? Hva ville konsekvensen vært for kristendommen, de europeiske kongehusene, ja hele den europeiske sivilisasjonen? I denne boken snur Laurent Binet opp ned på viktige deler av verdensbegivenhetene og byr på en festlig, smart og ellevill lek med historien:Frøydis Eiriksdatter legger ut på tokt mot Vinland, men bestemmer seg for å dra enda lenger sør med sitt store vikingfølge. Dermed er det en annen sivilisasjon Christofer Columbus treffer i 1492, og han lider store nederlag på sin oppdagerferd. Deretter reiser inkaene østover, til et land der befolkningen ser ut til å tilbe en gud som er spikret opp på et kors. Inkaene erobrer mer og mer land i Europa og innfører sin egen religion, sine egne ideologier og skikker. Dette får enorme følger for utviklingen i Europa, for den europeiske identiteten og for enkeltmennesker som Henrik den åttende, Martin Luther og Miguel de Cervantes.Sivilisasjoner er en fascinerende, fantasifull «hva hvis»-lek med historien og med litterære sjangre. Binet spiller på sagalitteraturen, helteeposet og middelalderromanen, og viser oss hvor tilfeldig verdenshistorien tross alt er. For denne boken ble han belønnet med den prestisjetunge Grand prix du Roman de l'Académie française i 2019.