The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon

The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon

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.

Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award nominee in 2008, as well as three collections of short stories: The Question of Bruno, Nowhere Man, which was also a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and Love and Obstacles. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003, as well as a MacArthur Foundation genius grant. He is based in Chicago.

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ISBN 13	9781594483752
ISBN 10	1594483752
Title	The Lazarus Project
Author	Aleksandar Hemon
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2009-05-05
Number of pages	304
Prizes	Winner of IMPAC Dublin Literary Award., Winner of National Book Award Finalist., Winner of New York Times Notable Book., Winner of Society of Midland Authors Award.
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