ALEKSANDAR HEMON
Tuesday, May 6 at 8 p.m.

A writer whose place(s) in life have been dictated by war and upheaval, MacArthur Award-winning novelist Aleksandar Hemon has now lived in Chicago since 1992. He was there for a visit when war broke out in his home city of Sarajevo. He learned to write in English, was here for his extraordinary first book, The Question of Bruno, then was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for his second book, Nowhere Man. In his much-anticipated new novel, The Lazarus Project (Riverhead), he sets a powerful tale in Chicago, both one hundred years ago, and now, exactly. "A profoundly moving novel that finds striking parallels between the America of a hundred years ago and now, as an immigrant Bosnian author, straining to come to terms with his identity, returns to his troubled homeland ... A literary page-turner that combines narrative momentum with meditations on identity and mortality." – Kirkus Reviews.

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