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A beautifully rendered reevaluation of a previously misunderstood chapter in the history of immigration to America--which is to say, in the history of America itself--Hemon's work describes and defines what it means to be a new citizen in this land--"Miami Herald.

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In 1908, teenaged Lazarus Averbuch, a Russian Jewish immigrant to Chicago, tried to deliver a letter to the Chief of Police, George Shippy. Instead of taking the letter, Shippy shot Averbuch twice. Present day: Brik, a young Bosnian writer in Chicago, becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Lazarus. And so he and his friend Rora, a charming photographer, set off on a journey back to the past

An electrifying masterclass in international storytelling from one of the most original writers at work in English today

In this stylistically adventurous, brilliantly funny tour de force -- the most highly acclaimed debut since Nathan Englander's -- Aleksandar Hemon writes of love and war, Sarajevo and America, with a skill and imagination that are breathtaking.A love affair is experienced in the blink of an eye as the Archduke Ferdinand watches his wife succumb to an assassin's bullet. An exiled writer, working in a sandwich shop in Chicago, adjusts to the abs...