Lazarus Project

Aleksandar Hemon

RRP: £14.99

Publisher: PICADOR

Publication Date : 01/08/2008

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

From the author of "Nowhere Man", this explores themes of ethnicity and religion.

Publisher's description:

On 2 March 1908, nineteen-year-old Lazarus Averbuch, a Russian Jewish immigrant to Chicago, tried to deliver a letter to the home of the city's Chief of Police, George Shippy. Instead of taking the letter, Shippy shot Averbuch twice, killing him.

ISBN: 9780330458412