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The Lazarus Project

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Availability:In StockContributor:Aleksandar HemonAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2009-05-05Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Riverhead BooksISBN-13:9781594483752ISBN-10:1594483752UPC:9781594483752Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Historical, SagasSize:8.02 x 5.12 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.6812Product ID:SCH7XENPPC
The only novel from MacArthur Genius Award winner, Aleksandar Hemon -- the National Book Critics Circle Award winning The Lazarus Project.

On March 2, 1908, nineteen-year-old Lazarus Averbuch, an Eastern European Jewish immigrant, was shot to death on the doorstep of the Chicago chief of police and cast as a would-be anarchist assassin.

A century later, a young Eastern European writer in Chicago named Brik becomes obsessed with Lazarus's story. Brik enlists his friend Rora-a war photographer from Sarajevo-to join him in retracing Averbuch's path.

Through a history of pogroms and poverty, and a prism of a present-day landscape of cheap mafiosi and even cheaper prostitutes, the stories of Averbuch and Brik become inextricably intertwined, creating a truly original, provocative, and entertaining novel that confirms Aleksandar Hemon, often compared to Vladimir Nabokov, as one of the most dynamic and essential literary voices of our time.

From the author of The Book of My Lives.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Riverhead BooksISBN-13:9781594483752ISBN-10:1594483752UPC:9781594483752Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Historical, SagasSize:8.02 x 5.12 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.6812Product ID:SCH7XENPPC
Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, Love and Obstacles, The Question of Bruno, Nowhere Man and The Book of My Lives. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Genius Award, the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, the PEN/W. G. Sebald Award, and, most recently, a 2012 USA Fellowship. He lives in Chicago.
Publisher: Riverhead Books

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