A century later, a young Eastern European writer in Chicago named Brik becomes obsessed with Lazarus's story. 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. Seller Inventory # 8243īook Description Hardcover. The plot of this novel, whereby Lazarus, dead 100 years, who comes back to life, is also inventive. 294 pages with black and white photographs. Dust jacket is in near-fine condition (residue on the front cover, scratched on the back cover, rubbed on the front and back covers and edge wear). Hardcover is in very good condition (the last page has been torn out and has numbers written in red marker on it, red marker is on the crease/binding on the inside of the back cover, top of page 84/84 has a small tear and is crinkled, the top corner of page 127/128 is folded, bumped on the bottom corners of the front and back covers, faded on the corners of the back cover and along the top edge of the front cover). Brad Thomas Parsonsīook Description Hardcover. It's an incredibly rewarding reading experience that's not to be missed. 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. 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. 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. 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. ![]() ![]() 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. Review: 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. Synopsis: A first full-length work by the MacArthur Award-winning author of the story collections The Question of Bruno and Nowhere Man finds the murder of Jewish immigrant Lazarus Averbuch triggering ethnic and political tensions in early twentieth-century Chicago, an event that is investigated a century later by a young writer from Eastern Europe.
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