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S'està carregant… The Lazarus Project (2008)de Aleksandar Hemon
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. I found this book, #17 on my TBR and my first read of 2016, pretty disjointed. I didn't really care about most of the characters, although I pitied Olga. The book alternated chapters between the fictionalized account of real events, and the travails of the narrator Vladimir Brik and his friend Rora, who half the time wanted Brik to shut up and relax. Brik himself seemed to be a professional beggar, and I agreed with his assertion that few people would care if he was dead. Though it was often hilarious, this book was half history lesson, half travelogue, and somewhat confusing. My first reaction is that I disliked (heartily) the first-person narrator's slow, slow melancholy. As the book progressed, that melancholy seemed to be the book's purpose - or even to be its own character. His refusal of optimism and just how much of his history is responsible for it are my main takeaways. The narrative of Olga's crushing anguish interested me much more than the narrator's. I was racing through this book when I was sidelined by the global pandemic inability to concentrate. I stuck with it, though. Perhaps a bit too bleak for a lockdown read but it's my kind of thing. Person investigates an historic episode (though different, think Laurent Binet's HHhH or Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time) while dealing with their own stuff. Recommend. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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On March 2, 1908, nineteen-year-old Lazarus Averbuch, a recent Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe to Chicago, knocked on the front door of the house of George Shippy, the chief of Chicago police. When Shippy came to the door, Averbuch offered him what he said was an important letter. Instead of taking the letter, Shippy shot Averbuch twice, killing him. When Shippy released a statement casting Averbuch as a would-be anarchist assassin and agent of foreign political operatives, he all but set off a city and a country already simmering with ethnic and political tensions. Now, in the twenty-first century, a young writer in Chicago, Brik, also from Eastern Europe, becomes obsessed with Lazarus story--what really happened, and why?--From publisher description. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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Brik travels to Sarajevo to research Lazarus' background.
The book meanders. Sometimes it is in first person with Brik's life aimless thoughts, moods, and experiences. Some parts are in 3rd person with Lazarus' story. It is a lot of Brik's feelings and what the mood strikes him to consider. ( )