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The Lazarus Project
Reader Score
71%
71% of readers
recommend this book
Critic Reviews
Good
Based on 11 reviews on
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Riverhead Books
- Publish Date: May 5th, 2009
- Pages: 304
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.02in - 5.12in - 0.67in - 0.68lb
- EAN: 9781594483752
- Recommended age: 18-UP
- Categories: • Literary• Historical - General• Sagas
About the Author
More books by Aleksandar Hemon
What people are saying
We publish stories, essays, poems and images with a modern sense of place. Based @AmherstCollege. Whiting Literary Magazine Prize winner.
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Always a reader. Sometimes an accidental writer. So Now You Know: Growing up Gay in India, HarperCollins India, 2019. he/him.
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Critics’ reviews
Praise for this book
-Washington Post Book Review
"Incandescent. When your eyes close, the power of this novel, of Hemon's colossal talent, remains."
-Junot Dfaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"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
"Remarkable, and remarkably entertaining." -The New York Times Book Review "A physical, historical, and pre-eminently psychological journey."
-San Francisco Chronicle
"Stunning...[a] vivid novel...wildly palpably real."
-Boston Globe
"A measured, clear spotlight of injustice, made all the more eloquent by the prickly humor of the author."
-Los Angeles Times
"Hemon's writing sometimes reminds one of Nabokov's...yet the feat of his reinvention exceeds the Russian's."
-James Wood, The New Yorker
"A profoundly moving novel...A literary page-turner that combines narrative momentum with meditations on identity and mortality."
-Kirkus Reviews.
What people are saying
We publish stories, essays, poems and images with a modern sense of place. Based @AmherstCollege. Whiting Literary Magazine Prize winner.
Just TWO MORE DAYS to bid on and win a personalized postcard from Aleksandar Hemon (@SashaHemon), novelist, critic, MacArthur recipient, and author of THE LAZARUS PROJECT! Don't miss out on this exciting and unique opportunity: https://t.co/9AZsr32EWO https://t.co/SWalVfYGOt
Always a reader. Sometimes an accidental writer. So Now You Know: Growing up Gay in India, HarperCollins India, 2019. he/him.
Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project Patrick White, The Twyborn Affair Marguerite Duras, The Lovers Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian W.G. Sebald, The Emigrants Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina Claudio Magris, Microcosms Zoe Wicomb, David’s Story (2/3)