The Making of Zombie Wars
2017 Longlist

The Making of Zombie Wars

ABOUT
THE BOOK

Joshua Levin has a reasonably comfortable Chicago apartment, a mildly dysfunctional family sprinkled throughout the suburbs, a steady job teaching ESL, a devoted girlfriend who lives down the block, and a laptop full of screenplay ideas-one of which he thinks, might turn out to be good: Zombie Wars.
But all it takes is a few unexpected events-his already unhinged army vet of a landlord experiencing something of a psychotic break, a moment of weakness (or two) with his sultry Bosnian student-for Joshua’s life to descend into chaos. As the stakes quickly move from absurd to life-and-death matters, The Making of Zombie Wars takes on real consequence.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Aleksandar
Hemon

Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and three books of short stories: The Question of Bruno; Nowhere Man, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Love and Obstacles. He was the recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship and a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation, and the 2020 Dos Passos Prize. He lives in Chicago.

Photo Credit: Velibor Bozovic

Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and three books of short stories: The Question of Bruno; Nowhere Man, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Love and Obstacles. He was the recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship and a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation, and the 2020 Dos Passos Prize. He lives in Chicago.

Photo Credit: Velibor Bozovic

NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

This is one of the funniest books that have been published in the last few years. It is crammed with black humour, but shows at the same time – as all of Hemon’s books do – also serious and critical aspects. Moreover, it literally sucks its reader in, one plunges completely into the depth of the story.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Date published
05/05/2015
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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