A review by ericfheiman
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon

5.0

One sign of a great book is once you finish it, you know it's great, but you can't quite pinpoint exactly why. This is how I felt after I finished "The Lazarus Project". The book is a daring gambit by trying to juggle two separate narratives that are barely connected, at least on the surface. Ultimately the story doesn't resolve and that's possibly where it draws much of its power. There is an underlying, genuine melancholy to Hemon's writing—the book could be seen as a requiem for the former Yugoslavia—that draws the reader in and never lets go.