The Lazarus Project (Paperback)

from mikevail

The Lazarus Project is about a struggling,modern day Bosnian writer researching the 1908 murder of a Jewish immigrant named Lazarus Averbach by a Chicago police chief. Vladmir Brik, the writer, is the narrator of the story and the action is filtered through his experience. The chapters of the boo...

from sonyau

This novel beautifully entwines the barbarism of early 20th Century Chicago with the barbarism of Bosnian ethnic cleansing. The narrative is gorgeous and harrowing, calling into question the notion of national identity, homeland, and the clash of cultures. Perception, in this work, is everything,...

from Laura400

This is a marvelous and affecting novel that moves between the early 20th Century and the present day, between Chicago and Eastern Europe. Sometimes funny, sometimes terribly sad, and always intelligent.

from brenzi

Hemon presents a dual story of Bosnian immigrants in 1908 and the present. Lazarus Averbuch comes to Chicago in 1908 to join sister Olga after surviving the pogrom in Bosnia. The question of his death in the foyer of the Chicago police chief is taken up by would be writer Vladimar Brik who escape...

from ExVivre

The Lazarus Project is a story of two Chicago immigrants: a turn-of-the-century Ukrainian Jew, Lazarus, who is killed by the chief of police under mysterious circumstances, and a Bosnian writer of modern times, Brik, who discovers Lazarus' story while doing research. Brik's digging leads him back...