Today in Ungooglable Questions:

Do any of you remember the name of a major French novel, translated maybe ~5 years ago into English, whose name was just, like, 3 or 4 capital letters? And "H" was one or two of them?

Like HHRQ, or HRVT, or HMTS, or something?
This was a big enough novel that it got reviewed in the major book reviews, etc. — more attention than a typical translated French novel would get.

Any ideas?
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