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The Lazarus Project - by Aleksandar Hemon (Paperback)

The Lazarus Project - by  Aleksandar Hemon (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A beautifully rendered reevaluation of a previously misunderstood chapter in the history of immigration to America--which is to say, in the history of America itself--Hemon's work describes and defines what it means to be a new citizen in this land--"Miami Herald."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The only novel from MacArthur Genius Award winner, Aleksandar Hemon -- the National Book Critics Circle Award winning <i>The Lazarus Project</i>.</b> <p/>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. <p/>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. <p/>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. <p/>From the author of <i>The Book of My Lives</i>.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A masterful new novel. . . Ingenious. . .Hemon is as much a writer of the senses as of the intellect.<br> -<i>Washington Post Book Review</i> <p/>Incandescent. When your eyes close, the power of this novel, of Hemon's colossal talent, remains.<br> -Junot Dfaz, author of <i>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao</i> <p/> Hemon is immensely talented-a natural storyteller and a poet, a maker of amazing, gorgeous sentences in what is his second language.<br> -<i>Los Angeles Times Book Review</i> <p/>Remarkable, and remarkably entertaining. -The New York Times Book Review A physical, historical, and pre-eminently psychological journey.<br> -<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> <p/> Stunning...[a] vivid novel...wildly palpably real. <br>-<i>Boston Globe</i> <p/> A measured, clear spotlight of injustice, made all the more eloquent by the prickly humor of the author.<br> -<i>Los Angeles Times</i> <p/> Hemon's writing sometimes reminds one of Nabokov's...yet the feat of his reinvention exceeds the Russian's.<br> -James Wood, <i>The New Yorker</i> <p/> A profoundly moving novel...A literary page-turner that combines narrative momentum with meditations on identity and mortality. <br>-<i>Kirkus Reviews</i>.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Aleksandar Hemon</b> is the author of <i>The</i> <i>Lazarus Project</i>, <i>Love and Obstacles, The Question of Bruno</i>, <i>Nowhere Man </i>and <i>The Book of My Lives</i>. 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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