Laurent Binet has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.4★ across 12 ratings. The most-rated is HHhH.

4 audiobooks
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HHhH

5 ratings

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HHhH: "Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich," or "Himmler's brain is called Heydrich." The most dangerous man in Hitler's cabinet, Reinhard Heydrich was known as the "Butcher of Prague." He was feared by all and loathed by most. With his cold Aryan features and implacable cruelty, Heydrich seemed indestructible - until two men, a Slovak and a Czech recruited by the British secret service - killed him in broad daylight on a bustling street in Prague, and thus changed the course of History. Who were these men, arguably two of the most discreet heroes of the twentieth century? In Laurent Binet's captivating debut novel, we follow Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubiš from their dramatic escape of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to England; from their recruitment to their harrowing parachute drop into a war zone, from their stealth attack on Heydrich's car to their own brutal death in the basement of a Prague church. A seemingly effortlessly blend of historical truth, personal memory, and Laurent Binet's remarkable imagination, HHhH- an international best seller and winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman - is a work at once thrilling and intellectually engrossing, a fast-paced novel of the Second World War that is also a profound meditation on the nature of writing and the debt we owe to history.

©2009 Editions Grasset et Fasquelle. Translation from the French copyright 2012 by Sam Taylor (P)2012 Tantor

Narrator: John Lee
Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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HHhH [French Version]

3 ratings

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À Prague, en 1942, deux hommes doivent en tuer un troisième. C'est l'opération "Anthropoïde" : deux parachutistes tchécoslovaques envoyés par Londres sont chargés d'assassiner Reinhard Heydrich, chef de la Gestapo, chef des services secrets nazis, planificateur de la solution finale, "le bourreau de Prague", "la bête blonde", "l'homme le plus dangereux du IIIe Reich". Heydrich était le chef d'Eichmann et le bras droit d'Himmler, mais chez les SS, on disait : "HHhH". Himmlers Hirn heißt Heydrich - le cerveau d'Himmler s'appelle Heydrich. Tous les personnages de ce livre ont existé ou existent encore. Tous les faits relatés sont authentiques. Mais derrière les préparatifs de l'attentat, une autre guerre se fait jour, celle que livre la fiction romanesque à la vérité historique. L'auteur, emporté par son sujet, doit résister à la tentation de romancer. Il faut bien, pourtant, mener l'histoire à son terme. L'adaptation cinématographique réalisée par Cédric Jimenez sort en salles au printemps 2017.

©2009 Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle; 2016 Audiolib

Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
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Civilizations

3 ratings

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Vers l'an mille : la fille d'Erik le Rouge met cap au sud. 1492 : Colomb ne découvre pas l'Amérique. 1531 : les Incas envahissent l'Europe. À quelles conditions ce qui a été aurait-il pu ne pas être ? Il a manqué trois choses aux Indiens pour résister aux conquistadors. Donnez-leur le cheval, le fer, les anticorps, et toute l'histoire du monde est à refaire. Civilizations est le roman de cette hypothèse : Atahualpa débarque dans l'Europe de Charles Quint. De Cuzco à Aix-la-Chapelle, et jusqu'à la bataille de Lépante, voici le récit de la mondialisation renversée, une nouvelle version de l'Histoire courant sur plusieurs siècles. Avec virtuosité, Laurent Binet, l'auteur de HHhH, déroule à la fois une saga islandaise, la réécriture ô combien savoureuse du journal de Christophe Colomb, une fresque épique célébrant la conquête de l'Europe par les Incas, et une parodie jubilatoire de Cervantès. Ce roman extraordinairement ambitieux embrasse les siècles et les civilisations en pratiquant un passionnant "décentrement" qui ne fait plus de l'Europe occidentale le centre du monde.

©2019 Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle (P)2019 Audiolib

Narrator: Bernard Gabay
Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
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The Seventh Function of Language

1 rating

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From the prizewinning author of HHhH comes The Seventh Function of Language, a romp through the French intelligentsia of the 20th century. Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies - struck by a laundry van - after lunch with the presidential candidate François Mitterand. The world of letters mourns a tragic accident. But what if it wasn't an accident at all? What if Barthes was murdered? In The Seventh Function of Language, Laurent Binet spins a madcap secret history of the French intelligentsia, starring such luminaries as Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Julia Kristeva - as well as the hapless police detective Jacques Bayard, whose new case will plunge him into the depths of literary theory. Soon Bayard finds himself in search of a lost manuscript by the linguist Roman Jakobson on the mysterious "seventh function of language". A brilliantly erudite comedy that recalls Flaubert's Parrot and The Name of the Rose - with more than a dash of The Da Vinci Code - The Seventh Function of Language takes us from the cafés of Paris to the corridors of Cornell University and into the duels and orgies of the Logos Club, a secret philosophical society that dates to the era of the Roman Empire. Binet has written both a send-up and a wildly exuberant celebration of the French intellectual tradition.

©2017 Laurent Binet (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
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