“Hemon is plainly and ardently in love with the music of English consonants and vowels.”
“The genre inaugurated by Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2002 novel Everything Is Illuminated has finally found its standard bearer. Like Everything before it, Aleksandar Hemon’s The Lazarus Project comprises a mildly successful, yet deeply neurotic author living in America, a character who speaks in a funny patois, an intriguing story of a murdered Eastern European Jew, the author/narrator’s journey back to Europe to write a book about the aforementioned Eastern European Jew, existential concern about writing said book, and the crafting of this concern into the very book that the reader is holding. ” – Josh Stein for Boldtype a literary blog worth checking out!
