The Lazarus Project [Paperback]

'Fantastic novel...glimmers with piercing insights into love, loss, migration and ideas of home.' --Metro

`Bravura storytelling... Hemon's exhilarating novel is both an oddball road-trip and an alarming evisceration of the physical, moral and psychological traumas of prejudice and displacement' --Financial Times

`There is some terrific writing here: "gun smoke moving slowly across the room, like a school of fish" is treasurable'
--Guardian

'Profoundly moving . . . A literary page-turner that combines narrative momentum with meditations on identity and mortality' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'Charged with fury and empathy, Hemon's sentences seethe and hiss...creating an excoriating novel of rare moral clarity' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'Hemon brings us a novel worth reading with as much fire as its composition must have demanded.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'The Lazarus Project raises questions of what it is to belong, illuminating fragments of history along the way.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'Hemon unpacks his haunting material with skill and exhilarating wit' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'One of the best books of the year so far' (seems churlish to point out that it's not published yet...!)
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'This is easily [Hemon's] best work to date: building up an intricately tessellated portrait of flight and emigration...'
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'Hemon shows astonishing skill in his adopted English...There are extraordinarily powerful verbal images.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

`A haunting study of despair and loss, death and dreams, identity and home...An outstanding contribution to immigrant literature' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The unprovoked murder of a Russian Jewish immigrant ignites a dazzling novel of flight, emigration and the meaning of home

On 2 March 1908, Lazarus 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 . . . 'Prose this powerful could wake the dead' Observer 'This is easily Hemon’s best work to date, an intricately tessellated portrait of flight, emigration, and the meaning of home' Evening Standard  

Born in Sarajevo, Aleksandar Hemon wrote his first story in English in 1995. He is the author The Question of Bruno, Nowhere Man, and a new collection of stories, Love and Obstacles. He lives in Chicago.