The Lazarus Project

Advance reading copy. Pp. [xii], 292. Printed grey wraps. B/w photographs courtesy of Velibor Božović, and the Chicago Historical Society.

Remaindered black marker to fore-edge, else Fine.

Author's third book and first novel. A New York Times Notable Book, as well as New York magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year. Finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Awards. On March 2, 1908, nineteen-year-old Lazarus Averbuch, an Eastern European Jewish immigrant, is shot dead on the doorsteps of Chicago's chief of police and cast as a would-be anarchist assassin. A century later, a Chicago-resident Eastern European writer attempts to resurrect Lazarus's story.

The disintegration of the former Yugoslavia has cast a long shadow in the author's work who penned a piece in the pages of The New York Times criticizing the Swedish Academy for awarding the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature to Milošević 'apologist', Peter Handke. "Prose this powerful could wake the dead." –Observer