The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon – Review

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The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon

Chandrahas Choudhury ponders a Bosnian writer’s search for traces of a lost life

Immigrant life often demands a kind of self-refashioning or rebirth, and Aleksandar Hemon’s melancholy new novel, The Lazarus Project, takes up this theme on various levels.

The narrator, Vladimir Brik, is, like Hemon, a Bosnian now domiciled in America, with an American wife and an American self draped over his old Bosnian self. He writes a column about immigrant life for a Chicago newspaper and wishes to write a book.

Review: The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon – Telegraph.