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The Lazarus Project (Paperback)
$12.10 - Save $3.90 24% off - RRP $16.00 Free shipping worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Lazarus ProjectA 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."
Full description- Publisher: Riverhead Books
- Published: 05 May 2009
- Format: Paperback 292 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Historical Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781594483752 ISBN 10: 1594483752
- Sales rank: 225,527
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Full description for 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 as one of the most dynamic and essential literary voices of our time.
