Alexsander Herman is the Bosnian born, Chicago dwelling novelist who only started writing in his second language, English, in 1995. His two books The Question of Bruno and Nowhere Man earned him acclaim, awards and comparisons with Nabokov and Conrad.
His latest effort is The Lazarus Project. The novel tells the dual stories of a young Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe who was killed by the Chief of the Chicago chief of police in 1908, and of a writer in the 21st century obsessively retracing the story.
To go with this very meta-historical novel is an interesting online version of the book.
Using lines from the novel, you are catapulted around the webpage to photographs taken from the archives of the Chicago Historical Society and by Velibor Bozovic, a photographer who travelled with Hermon in eastern Europe while he researched the book.
It makes for a fascinating visual companion, fusing very modern elements with relics of the past and images of the present. View it here.
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