The Lazarus Project Fiction The New York Times Book

The New York Times Book Review "Sparkle and bite

profoundly moving

and social equality for all

and he admirably draws upon new documents

the delight of caricaturists—and an utter enigma

The Lazarus Project Fiction The New York Times BookThe only novel from MacArthur Genius Award winner, Aleksandar Hemon the National Book Critics Circle Award winning The Lazarus Project . On 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. A century later, a young Eastern European writer in Chicago named Brik becomes obsessed with Lazarus's story. Brik