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Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date :2009-8-1 Pages: 294 Publisher: Economic Daily On 2 March 1908. Lazarus Averbuch. a young Russian Jewishimmigrant to Chicago. tried to deliver a letter to the citys Chiefof Police He was shot dead After the.. shooting. it was claimed hewas an anarchist assassin and an agent of foreign operatives whowanted to bring the United States to its knees. His sister. Olga. was left alone and bereft in a city seething with tension. Acentury later. two friends become obsessed with the truth aboutLazarus and decide to travel to his birthplace As the storiesintertwine. a world emerges in which everything and nothing haschanged Prose this powerful could wake the dead -.. Observer.This is easily Hemons best work to date. an intricatelytessellated portrait of flight. emigration. and the meaning ofhome - Evening Standard.
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Amazon Best of the Month, May 2008: America has a richer literary landscape since Aleksandar Hemon, stranded in the United States in 1992 after war broke out in his native Sarajevo, adopted Chicago as his new home. He completed his first short story within three years of learning to write in English, and since then his work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, and The Paris Review and in two acclaimed books, The Question of Bruno and Nowhere Man. In The Lazarus Project, his most ambitious and imaginative work yet, Hemon brings to life an epic narrative born from a historical event: the 1908 killing of Lazarus Averbuch, a 19-year-old Jewish immigrant who was shot dead by George Shippy, the chief of Chicago police, after being admitted into his home to deliver an important letter. The mystery of what really happened that day remains unsolved (Shippy claimed Averbuch was an anarchist with ill intent) and from this opening set piece Hemon springs a century ahead to tell the story of Vladimir Brik, a Bosnian-American writer living in Chicago who gets funding to travel to Eastern Europe and unearth what really happened. The Lazarus Project deftly weaves the two stories together, cross-cutting the aftermath of Lazarus's death with Brik's journey and the tales from his traveling partner, Rora, a Bosnian war photographer. And while the novel will remind readers of many great books before it--Ragtime, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Everything Is Illuminated--it is a masterful literary adventure that manages to be grand in scope and intimate in detail. It's an incredibly rewarding reading experience that's not to be missed. --Brad Thomas Parsons
About the Author
Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, Love and Obstacles, The Question of Bruno, Nowhere Man and The Book of My Lives. 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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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0330458426
- ISBN 13 9780330458429
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages304
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