The Lazarus Project Fiction the delight of caricaturists—and an

the delight of caricaturists—and an utter enigma

with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality

profoundly human light on the tragedies and triumphs that took place within it

" The Washington Post From the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel

The Lazarus Project Fiction the delight of caricaturists—and anThe 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