The Lazarus Project
by Hemon, Aleksandar
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1594489882
- ISBN 13
- 9781594489884
- Seller
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Simi Valley, California, United States
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Schwabe Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- mon0003210577
- Title
- The Lazarus Project
- Author
- Hemon, Aleksandar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1594489882
- ISBN 13
- 9781594489884
- Publisher
- Riverhead Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008-05-01
- Size
- 1.0000 8.4000 5.8000
- Bookseller catalogs
- Book;
- X weight
- 1.0500 lb