{"product_id":"9781594483752","title":"The Lazarus Project","description":"\u003cp\u003e\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of My Lives\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036706423024,"sku":"9781594483752","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781594483752_p0.jpg?v=1763814117","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781594483752","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}