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A beautifully rendered reevaluation of a previously misunderstood chapter in the history of immigration to America--which is to say, in the history of America itself--Hemons work describes and defines what it means to be a new citizen in this land--Miami Herald. nThe only novel from MacArthur Genius Award winner, Aleksandar Hemon -- the National Book Critics Circle Award winning The Lazarus Project. nOn 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. n nA century later, a young Eastern European writer in Chicago named Brik becomes obsessed with Lazaruss story. Brik enlists his friend Rora-a war photographer from Sarajevo-to join him in retracing Averbuchs path. n nThrough 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. n nFrom the author of The Book of My Lives.n
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