{"product_id":"9781440637490","title":"The Lazarus Project","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe only novel from MacArthur Genius Award winner, Aleksandar Hemon -- the National Book Critics Circle Award winning \u003ci\u003eThe Lazarus Project\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA century later, a young Eastern European writer in Chicago named Brik becomes obsessed with Lazarus's story. Brik enlists his friend Rora-a war photographer from Sarajevo-to join him in retracing Averbuch's path.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of My Lives\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127988142320,"sku":"9781440637490","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781440637490_p0.jpg?v=1763788459","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781440637490","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}