The Lazarus Project

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• The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon - Review by Waterstone's Books Quarterly Online

  March 1908: 19-year-old Lazarus Averbuch tries to deliver a letter to Chicago's Chief of Police, only to be shot as an anarchist assassin. One hundred years later, Bosnian Vladimir Brik comes across Lazarus's story and, with a sense of immigrant cama ... (read full critics)

  wbqonline published on Wed, 29 Sep 2010

• Two go mad in Europe

  The political catastrophe of Bush-era America has been vivid enough to penetrate even the rather placidly apolitical literary life. With the litany of horrors lengthening every day, it's hard to stay focused on your coming-of-age novel, your new poem ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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  Well-written and at times interesting. The modern day sections are probably more interesting if only because there seem to be more layers and a larger intention at work there. Not sure if the early 19C section is supposed to be a bit heavy-handed in its execution, though it frequently comes off as s ... (continue)

  Well-written and at times interesting. The modern day sections are probably more interesting if only because there seem to be more layers and a larger intention at work there. Not sure if the early 19C section is supposed to be a bit heavy-handed in its execution, though it frequently comes off as such. Some interesting insights into the meaning of fiction and fiction-making. Less so in terms of the treatment of American culture--must all foreign writers see America as being pure surface? As a native, I certainly don't see it that way . . .

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  "Home is where somebody notices your absence"
  Enough said.

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• English Books
• Hardcover 304 Pages
• ISBN-10: 1594489882
• ISBN-13: 9781594489884
• Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
• Pub date: May 01, 2008
• Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Paperback and eBook

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