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The Lazarus Project
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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.
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.
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BugVoyeur
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“Hard to imagine he likes his wife all that much. Hard to ignore the navel gazing aspect of semi-autobiographical novels. Harder to ignore that Hemon divorced his first wife after this book. Really liked “Love and Obstacles” and need to explore more of this author—but wasn’t so moved by this effort. Pacing and writing is good but value of story I feel is questionable, but then again, is the object of a story to have a likeable protagonist? Indeed the protagonist is very human, and Hemon doesn’t appear to have an interest in making his projection overly likeable. Perhaps this should be seen as a refreshing divergence from expectation and convention and maybe that’s why he’s so celebrated?”

Rozette
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Mggrgm
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“Me encanto!!
"Nunca ha pasado que no ocurra nada"
Mi frase favorita, así como esta hay muchas en el libro.
Altamente recomendable, fresco, manejo del lenguaje (a pesar de la traducción), una narrativa estupenda.
La melancolía siempre presente, se vuelve completamente entrañable”

Kev
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Katie
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About Aleksandar Hemon
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.
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