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The only real story from MacArthur Genius Award winner, Aleksandar Hemon -- the National Book Critics Circle Award winning The Lazarus Project. On March 2, 1908, nineteen-year-old Lazarus Averbuch, an Eastern European Jewish immigrant, was shot to death on the doorstep of the Chicago chief of police and throw like a would-be anarchist assassin. A hundred years later, a Eastern European author in Chicago called Brik becomes enthusiastic about Lazarusis tale. Brik enlists his buddy Rora-a war shooter from Sarajevo-to become listed on him in retracing Averbuchis route.