{"product_id":"the-lazarus-project-9781594483752","title":"The Lazarus Project","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe only novel from MacArthur Genius Award winner, Aleksandar Hemon -- the National Book Critics Circle Award winning \u003ci\u003eThe Lazarus Project\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of My Lives\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-2003137\"\u003eAleksandar Hemon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Riverhead Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/05\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.02h x 5.12w x 0.67d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781594483752\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1594483752\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC014000\"\u003eHistorical | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC008000\"\u003eSagas\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAleksandar Hemon\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLazarus Project\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLove and Obstacles, The Question of Bruno\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNowhere Man \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Book of My Lives\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42684158410989,"sku":"9781594483752","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_d2678841-da76-4ffd-a4ce-1a2027f6405e.jpg?v=1649752456","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-lazarus-project-9781594483752","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}