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Laurent Binet
Books in Order: 7 titles
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Perspective
- Apr-2026
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???As full of epic characters as the Sistine Chapel ceiling . . . Sinfully fun to read.??? ???Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker???[A] thorough success . . . A dazzling romp.??? ???Steven Poole, The Guardian???Historical fiction doesn???t get much bette...
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Perspective(s)
- Apr-2025
- / Literary
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“As full of epic characters as the Sistine Chapel ceiling . . . Sinfully fun to read.” -- Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker“[A] thorough success . . . A dazzling romp.” -- Steven Poole, The Guardian“Historical fiction doesn’t get much bet...
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Civilizations
- Sep-2021
- / Literary
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An ambitious and highly entertaining novel of revisionist history from the author of the international bestseller HHhH, Laurent Binet's Civilizations is nothing less than a strangely believable counterfactual history of the modern world, fizzing with...
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The 7th Function of Language
- Jan-2018
- / General Fiction
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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 Mitte... -
The Seventh Function of Language
- Aug-2017
- / Literary
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From the prizewinning author of HHhH, “the most insolent novel of the year” (L’Express) is a romp through the French intelligentsia of the twentieth century. Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies―struck by a laundry van―af...
