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| The Lazarus Project (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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Full blurb:
On 2 March 1908, Lazerus Averbuch, a young Russian Jewish immigrant to Chicago, tried to deliver a letter to the City’s Chief of Police. He was shot dead. After the shooting, it was claimed he was an anarchist assassin and an agent of foreign operatives who wanted to bring the United States to its knees. His sister, Olga, was left alone and bereft in a city seething with tension. A century later, two friends become obsessed with the truth about Lazarus and decide to travel to his birthplace. As the stories intertwine, a world emerges in which everything and nothing has changed...
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First page first lines:
‘The time and place are the only things I am certain of: March 2, 1908, Chicago. Beyond that is the haze of history and pain, and now I plunge: Early in the morning, a scrawny young man rings the bell at 31 Lincoln Place, the residence of George Shippy, the redoubtable chief of Chicago police’...
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Category: Novel
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Author: Aleksander Hemon
Aleksander Hemon was born in Sarajevo. He has lived in Chicago since 1992. He was awarded a MacArthur Foundation ‘genius grant’ in 2004 and is a regular contributor to the New Yorker and Granta, among other publications. The Lazarus Project was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Publisher: Picador
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Reviews:
‘Prose this powerful could wake the dead.’ – The Observer
‘His writing, as many have observed, is reminiscent of Nabokov’s. Both fizz.’ – Guardian.
‘Thrillingly real, full of adventures and atrocities, philosophy and humour, anger and compassion, nihilism and dreams.’ – Sunday Times.
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| Book code: BTD046 |
| Price: GBP £ 2.50 |
| USD $ 4.00 |
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