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Wednesday, May 7th (drop-by)
ALEKSANDAR HEMON signs
The Lazarus Project
(Riverhead, $24.95)
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"A profoundly moving novel that finds striking parallels between the America of a hundred years ago and now, as an immigrant Bosnian author, straining to come to terms with his identity, returns to his troubled homeland... A literary page-turner that combines narrative momentum with meditations on identity and mortality," said Kirkus. And Publishers Weekly said: "MacArthur genius Hemon in his third book (after Nowhere Man) intelligently unpacks 100 years' worth of immigrant disillusion, displacement and desperation. As fears of the anarchist movement roil 1908 Chicago, the chief of police guns down Lazarus Averbuch, an eastern European immigrant Jew who showed up at the chief's doorstep to deliver a note. Almost a century later, Bosnian-American writer Vladimir Brik secures a coveted grant and begins working on a book about Lazarus..." | |
| To reserve a copy, email us at info@mformystery.com or telephone us at the store (see numbers below). |
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86 East Third Avenue
San Mateo, CA 94401
www.MforMystery.com
Phone: 650-401-8077
Toll free outside the Bay Area: 888-405-8077
Fax: 650-401-8079