On 2 March 1908, Lazarus, a young Russian Jewish immigrant to Chicago, tried to deliver a letter to the city's Chief of Police. He was shot dead. After the shooting, it was claimed he was an anarchist assassin and an agent of foreign operatives who wanted to bring the US to its knees.

Set in the darkest heart of Africa, in the backwaters of Slovenia, in the melting pot of Chicago, this collection of stories is coloured throughout by the 1992 Bosnian war.

Features Jozef Pronek.

An elegy for the vanished Yugoslavia and a journey through the intertwined history of a family and a nation.

On 2 March 1908, nineteen-year-old Lazarus Averbuch, a Russian Jewish immigrant to Chicago, tried to deliver a letter to the home of the city's Chief of Police, George Shippy. Instead of taking the letter, Shippy shot Averbuch twice, killing him.

The explosive perils of adolescence, a Communist yet cosmopolitan country that falls apart, and the overwhelming vertigo of a new life abroad: this is life in which love is only one of many obstacles. This collection is linked by a young man finding his awkward way in the world, and shadowed by a sixth sense for the absurdities of experience.