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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.
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Mark Beardsley
reviewed The Lazarus Project on October 14, 2008
The Lazarus Project
Jeremy gave this book three stars and said that if he'd picked it up before reading Hemon's other stuff, he might have given it more. I feel exactly the same way. This book certainly isn't bad, and I think Hemon has a lot of potential as a writer. But it seems like the whole world has been telling him (in the form of grant upon million-dollar genius grant and over-the-top praise such as "this guy = Nabokov" and "this writer is not only good, he's NECESSARY") that we're all really friggin fascinated by his immigrant experience story, which he keeps writing again and again. And it's a decent story, as a jumping off point - but after reading a bunch of his short stories, a couple of columns, his previous novel, and now this, I've lost interest. And I get the feeling that he's lost interest, too, but doesn't know what to do about it. (I mean, he got this grant to write about being from Bosnia, right? He has to give the Guggenheims and the MacArthurs what they want!) I hope that at some point Hemon stops trying to mold himself in the mediocre image that his adoring critics are imposing on him, and starts working on something that really interests him.
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