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The Lazarus Project Hardback - 2008

by Hemon, Aleksandar

In two collections of stories, The Question of Brunoand the NBCC-finalist Nowhere Man, AleksandarHemon has earned unmatched literary acclaim anda reputation as one of the English language's mostoriginal and moving wordsmiths. In The Lazarus Project,Hemon has turned these talents to an embracingnovel that intertwines haunting historical atmosphereand detail with sharp and shimmering sometimeshilarious, sometimes heartbreaking contemporarystorytelling.

On March 2, 1908, nineteen-year-old LazarusAverbuch, a recent Jewish immigrant from EasternEurope to Chicago, knocked on the front door of thehouse of George Shippy, the chief of Chicago police.When Shippy came to the door, Averbuch offered himwhat he said was an important letter. Instead of takingthe letter, Shippy shot Averbuch twice, killing him.When Shippy released a statement casting Averbuchas a would-be anarchist assassin and agent of foreignpolitical operatives, he all but set off a city and acountry already simmering with ethnic and politicaltensions.

Now, in the twenty-first century, a young writer inChicago, Brik, also from Eastern Europe, becomesobsessed with Lazarus's story what really happened,and why? In order to understand Averbuch,Brik and his friend Rora who overflows with storiesof his life as a Sarajevo war photographer retraceAverbuch's path across Eastern Europe, througha history of pogroms and poverty, and through apresent-day landscape of cheap mafiosi and cheaperprostitutes. The stories of Averbuch and Brik becomeinextricably entwined, augmented by the photographsthat Rora takes on their journey, creating a truly original,provocative, and entertaining novel that will confirmHemon once and for all as one of the most dynamicand essential literary voices of our time.


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The much anticipated novel from MacArthur Award-winning writer Hemon is a story of historical sweep and contemporary insight crafted in a dazzlingly original style. Illustrated.

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  • Title The Lazarus Project
  • Author Hemon, Aleksandar
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 304
  • Language EN
  • Publisher Riverhead Hardcover, New York
  • Date 2008-05-01
  • ISBN 9781594489884

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'Masterful IngeniousWhether describing turn-of-the-century Chicago, with its mean tenements and decrepit outhouses, or the onionesque armpits' of a Moldovan pimp or an unreal McDonald's' in Moldova, shiny and sovereign and structurally optimistic,' Hemon is as much a writer of the senses as of the intellect. He can be very funny: The novel is full of jokes and linguistics riffs that justify comparisons to Nabokov.'
Washington Post Book World

'Hemon's self-assured first-person narration has resulted in a tightly woven novel, a physical, historical, and pre-eminently psychological journeyHis prose is beautiful and imperative.'
San Francisco Chronicle

'The Lazarus Project is the fearless and spirited expression of a turbulent literary talent and, at the same time, a cold, fierce blast of moral outrage. For all Hemon's nods to other writers one catches glimpses not only of Nabokov and Sebald but of Bulgakov, Pamuk, Amis, Poe he is entirely his own man, an original who owes no debts to anyone.'
Bookforum

'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. Books like The Lazarus Project should make us glad he's here.'
Miami Herald

'The Lazarus Project is a remarkable, and remarkably entertaining, chronicle of loss and hopelessness and cruelty propelled by an eloquent, irritable existential unease. It is, against all odds, full of humor and full of jokes. It is, at the same time, inexpressibly sad.'
The New York Times Book Review

'A measured, clear spotlight of injustice, made all the more eloquent by the prickly humor of the author.'
Los Angeles Times

'Hemon is immensely talented a natural storyteller and a poet, a maker of amazing, gorgeous sentences in what is his second language.'
Los Angeles Times Book Review

'In [The Lazarus Project]the search is not merely for the facts of one man's life, but for more complex truths about life and death, hope and despair, love and hate.'
The Boston Globe

'[The Lazarus Project] will challenge you to look closely at the world we inhabit. It will make you ask questions. Questions about death and life and remembrance. The kind of questions Hemon is known for. The kind we need more of.'
Esquire

'A profoundly moving novel that finds striking parallels between the America of a hundred years ago and now, as an immigrant Bosnian author, straining to come to terms with his identity, returns to his troubled homelandA literary page-turner that combines narrative momentum with meditations on identity and mortality.'
Kirkus Reviews

'A story filled with death, despair, missed connections and aching ironies that somehow manages to be full of humor and hope --a neat trick whose secret must lie somewhere in Hemon's skilled use of his adopted language.'
The Sunday Oregonian

'A meditation on life and death and on the bonds between people, even people one has never met - perhaps even especially people one has never metThis is as engrossing a novel as I've read in some time.'
Rocky Mountain News

Praise for Aleksandar Hemon:
'Hemon can't write a boring sentence,and the English language (which he adoptedat a late age) is the richer for it.. . . Antic and ingenious.'
Gary Shteyngart,The New York Times Book Review

'[With The Question of Bruno] Hemonproved himself as inventive as Nabokovor Salman Rushdie. He seemed, in otherwords, to possess the kind of bold talentthat doesn't come around very often.And in his follow-up book, Hemon againdisplays his prodigious gifts nearly everysentence of this novel is infused withenergy and wit. . . . A true original.'
Los Angeles Times

'Now here's a reason to get excited: atrue work of art that's as vast and mysteriousas life itself. This tender, devastatingbook is evidence indeed that Hemonis a writer of rare artistry and dept.'
Esquire

'An extraordinary writer: one who seemsnot simply gifted but necessary.'
The New York Times

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