{"product_id":"the-lazarus-project-9781594483752","title":"The Lazarus Project","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Aleksandar Hemon\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Riverhead Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Riverhead Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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 \u003c\/p\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.","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45355153391767,"sku":"9781594483752","price":1237.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781594483752.webp?v=1767308794","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-lazarus-project-9781594483752","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}