The Lazarus Project

The Lazarus Project

A first full-length work by the MacArthur Award-winning author of the story collections The Question of Bruno and Nowhere Man finds the murder of Jewish immigrant Lazarus Averbuch triggering ethnic and political tensions in early twentieth-century Chicago, an event that is investigated a century later by a young writer from Eastern Europe.
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Alex Noble@alexnoble
4.5 stars
Sep 20, 2024

Hemon’s one of the best. I’m obsessed with everything that happened in former Yugoslavia during the 90s and it all leads back to reading The Book of My Life, which isn’t even four pages, in freshman creative writing. Unblinking scrutiny over injustice on every level, everywhere, past and present, from state violence to tabloid wordplay (embedding the language of that ass-backward account of Averbuch’s murder is just a stroke of ingenuity). Never didactic, never sarcastic, always moving. And mastery of American English expression to boot — his second language, no less, a fact which I’ve gone from deeply admiring to being just blown back by. And what a stunning final exchange. “Something is always true.”

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Trevor Berrett@mookse
2 stars
Nov 10, 2021

Not the best pick for the National Book Award. For my complete review, go here: http://mookse.wordpress.com/2008/10/2...

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A kabel @me0wme0w
3 stars
Jan 8, 2024
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Greta Keller@gretzka
5 stars
Apr 20, 2023
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Karolina Klermon-Williams@ofloveandart
2 stars
Jan 14, 2024
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Will Vunderink@willvunderink
3 stars
Dec 18, 2023
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Roman Micevic@romanima
3 stars
Mar 21, 2023
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Meryn Kae Addison@merynkae
3 stars
Jan 1, 2023
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Liz Prinz@prinzy
3 stars
Apr 4, 2022