The Making of Zombie Wars: A Novel, by Aleksandar Hemon
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The seriously, seriously funny roller-coaster ride of sex and violence that Aleksandar Hemon has long promisedScript idea #142: Aliens undercover as cabbies abduct the fiancée of the main character, who has to find a way to a remote planet to save her. Title: Love Trek.Script idea #185: Teenager discovers his girlfriend's beloved grandfather was a guard in a Nazi death camp. The boy's grandparents are survivors, but he's tantalizingly close to achieving deflowerment, so when a Nazi hunter arrives in town in pursuit of Grandpa, he has to distract him long enough to get laid. A riotous Holocaust comedy. Title: The Righteous Love.Script idea #196: Rock star high out of his mind freaks out during a show, runs offstage, and is lost in streets crowded with his hallucinations. The teenage fan who finds him keeps the rock star for himself for the night. Mishaps and adventures follow. This one could be a musical: Singin' in the Brain.Josh Levin is an aspiring screenwriter teaching ESL classes in Chicago. His laptop is full of ideas, but the only one to really take root is Zombie Wars. When Josh comes home to discover his landlord, an unhinged army vet, rifling through his dirty laundry, he decides to move in with his girlfriend, Kimmy. It's domestic bliss for a moment, but Josh becomes entangled with a student, a Bosnian woman named Ana, whose husband is jealous and violent. Disaster ensues, and as Josh's choices move from silly to profoundly absurd, The Making of Zombie Wars takes on real consequence.
The Making of Zombie Wars: A Novel, by Aleksandar Hemon - Amazon Sales Rank: #556688 in Books
- Brand: Hemon, Aleksandar
- Published on: 2015-05-05
- Released on: 2015-05-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.56" h x 1.16" w x 5.78" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 320 pages
The Making of Zombie Wars: A Novel, by Aleksandar Hemon Review
“The book is funny and pleasantly loose . . . The writing is always worthy of your time. This funny, free-flowing, gloriously imperfect book has the impression of an important writer in transition, of moving from the dead toward the living, of trying to have some fun despite this land so crowded with the lost and the lamented. In the end, we are all fighting our zombie wars, and we all need stories to keep us moving.” ―New York Times Book Review
“Zestfully funny in his skewering of hypocrisy and pretension and warmly insightful regarding family, friendship, lust, and love, Hemon astutely ties it all together” ―Booklist (starred review)
“What has always been an element of sardonic humor in Hemon's work now expands into a fast-paced, darkly comic tale set in Chicago . . .deeply and comically satisfying.” ―The Chicago Tribune
“The Making of Zombie Wars is crazy in the best sense of the word, and very few authors could have pulled it off - even in its most sober moments, it's still essentially absurd. But Hemon is such a brilliant prose stylist, it's impossible not to get pulled in, not just by his sense of humor, but by his startling observations about what makes us human (or something like it).” ―Michael Schaub for NPR.org
“Manic and maniacally funny” ―Newsday
“Beautiful fiction” ―The Huffington Post
“Loud, flashy and crackling with animated energy.” ―The Houston Chronicle
“A delightful ride through an ordinary life kicking into high, crazy gear. With zombies.” ―Carolyn Kellogg, The Los Angeles Times
“A powerful, masterful work from one of our most significant literary writers, at once madcap and thoughtful, exhilarating and devastating.” ―The National Post
“All this zombie-spiked zaniness is boosted by Hemon's adroit style, his ability to re-create in written language the comic timing of a flawless oral delivery.” ―The Washington Post
“Hemon's latest novel may be as humorous as its title indicates, but The Making of Zombie Wars doesn't shy away from the challenging topics” ―Paste Magazine
“At once unimaginable and unforgettable.” ―Time, a Best Book of the Year on The Book of My Lives
“An extraordinary story.” ―The New Yorker on The Book of My Lives
“Acute meditations on exile and otherness, and the redeeming power of language.” ―The Economist, a Best Book of the Year on The Book of My Lives
“As crowded as the pool of contemporary writers wrestling with the American experience has become . . . no discussion is complete without Aleksandar Hemon.” ―Chicago Tribune, a Best Book of the Year on The Book of My Lives
About the Author Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Book of My Lives, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and three books of short stories, including Nowhere Man, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Genius Grant from the MacArthur Foundation. He lives in Chicago.
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful. Humor and violence / Abound in this short novel / Worthy of a read By S. Goldstein I'm surprised that nobody has reviewed this yet, as Hemon is a writer who is definitely worth the buzz he gets. Chris Roberts should have schizophrenically one-starred this one by now. This book is a quick, funny read, with plenty of sex and violence to keep your interest. The plot is basically about a young single man in Chicago in 2003 who aspires to be a screenwriter but doesn't have enough motivation to break out of the kind of sad mode that his life is in. He teaches ESOL to Russians and Bosnians, he has a girlfriend who is too good for him, and a landlord who has some issues (to say the least). In between relating episodes of his life, the narrator breaks to give us parts of his screenplay (Zombie Wars) and synopses of other ideas he has for movies (some of which are laugh-out-loud funny - more so because you could see Hollywood making some of these movies).Please don't read this book if you are looking for a book about Zombies, but you should read it if you like books by Jonathan Lethem, Gary Shteyngart, and Jonathan Safran Foer. Hemon is a worthy contemporary of those dudes.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. A great Dark, Cynical and Funny read. Who doesn't love Zombies?!? By Justin D Blackburn Joshua, who is the main character in this book is a teacher. He is attempting to write a screen play about Zombies. Then things start to unravel. Joshua's landlord, Stagger, a war veteran, has what appears to be a psychotic break, breaking into his apartment for no discernible reason. Joshua starts flirting with one of his students, a married Bosnian woman with a disaffected teenage daughter. And his father reveals that he has been diagnosed with a horrible disease. It starts to seem like the hero of his screenplay — one of the sole survivors of a virus that's turning Americans into zombies — is having an easier time than he is. "There was a time when he could conceive of a life that would permit him to wake up happy in the morning," Hemon writes. "Such a life was now beyond the reach of his imagination, nor could he remember what it would've exactly looked like."If the plot sounds bizarre, that's because it is. And Hemon works in so many twists, it's unfair to give too much of the story away. But it involves, at various times, a samurai sword, a sexual apparatus that cannot be described here, the world's most annoying kid, and a cat that meets with a bad end at the hands of a very angry immigrantHemon has always had a gift for humor, but he's never written anything as raucously funny and surreal as this. "Dark" is an understatement — although it's endlessly entertaining, it's one of the most cynical novels you're likely to read this year. As Joshua and his father watch a statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled on a TV screen, Joshua reflects: "This year we are slaves. Next year, may we all be free. And the year after that we'll probably be slaves again.The novel is also relentlessly violent, with more than one hospital scene, and all kinds of brutality being inflicted upon various characters. Hemon presents the bloodshed almost gleefully, and it's made somehow even more unsettling by the humor that bookends each vicious assault. He alternates scenes from Joshua's life with excerpts from his (pretty bad) screenplay-in-progress, and both are juxtaposed with references to the ongoing Iraq War. It leaves the reader wondering who the real zombies in the book are — the undead creatures in Joshua's screenplay or the friends and family he has surrounded himself with.The Making of Zombie Wars is crazy in the best sense of the word, and very few authors could have pulled it off — even in its most sober moments, it's still essentially absurd. But Hemon is such a brilliant prose stylist, it's impossible not to get pulled in, not just by his sense of humor, but by his startling observations about what makes us human (or something like it).Pessimistic to the last, Hemon still manages to make the prospect of the end of the world a lot of fun to read about. Or, as he describes it: "The great American cycle: catastrophe prompting reinvention; reinvention resulting in further catastrophe, and on we roll toward apocalypse and redemption."
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. It's much less than the sum of its parts By Bookreporter Readers familiar with the work of Aleksandar Hemon only through his 2013 essay collection, THE BOOK OF MY LIVES, a book that included the heartbreaking story of his infant daughter's death from a rare form of brain cancer, are in for a surprise with his novel, THE MAKING OF ZOMBIE WARS, a dark comedy about stunted ambition and the consequences of unchecked desire. Though it shines at times with Hemon's wit and benefits from a quirky supporting cast of characters, its brightest moments only serve to spotlight its shortcomings as a coherent work of fiction.Hemon has taken a risk in choosing a protagonist who is more likely to grate than endear. Joshua Levin, a 33-year-old graduate of Northwestern University, can't do better for himself than teach a sullen handful of students in an ESL class in Chicago and participate in a weekly screenwriting workshop whose members seem doomed never to produce a finished script, let alone land a movie deal. He uses the workshop to flesh out his screenplay-in-progress, Zombie Wars, a script that features the inartfully named Major Klopstock in gruesome mortal combat with an onslaught of undead foes. "What he wanted to do was nothing, every day, all day long, until the glacier of time ground everything back into its smooth shape" is Hemon's apt summary of Joshua's slacker personality. Magnifying Joshua's discontent is a prickly relationship with his father, Bernie, whose abandonment of his wife for a younger woman still stings, even as the son learns his father is suffering from prostate cancer.As inert as he may be in confronting life's demands, Joshua has managed to fashion a committed relationship with a Japanese-American woman named Kimiko. His "beautiful Zen mistress" is a child psychologist specializing in divorce trauma, whose attraction to him is as inexplicable to him as it is to us. But when the voluptuous Ana, a married Bosnian émigré and one of his ESL students, signals her availability, it doesn't take much in the way of predictive ability to know that Joshua's romantic life is headed for serious complication. Though "indelible sorrow" is something Ana "constantly radiated," she has no difficulty communicating her sexual desires to someone as willing to receive them as Joshua.Some of Hemon's most effective characterization involves Ana and a small cadre of Bosnians that includes her grim second husband Esko, her teenage daughter Alma, and Esko's carefree friend Bega, one of the other students in Joshua's screenwriting workshop. The Bosnians, survivors of the 1990s war that devastated their country, have fled Sarajevo for America, but almost a decade of life in the United States hasn't allowed them to forget "how sad and displaced they really were." At the seedy bar where he and Joshua hang out after a typically unproductive workshop, Bega brags that he and his countrymen have learned to "surf catastrophe," a boast that seems to have the ring of truth as we watch their messy, complicated lives intersect with Joshua's.Hemon's inventiveness and wit shine as he peppers the novel with cullings from Joshua's laptop, "brimming with script ideas, none close to being actualized." Among them are "Script Idea #99: A foxhunt from the fox's point of view" or "Script Idea #144: A man saves the life of his comrade, which impresses his girlfriend so much that she suggests a threesome." Hemon often uses these bizarre gleanings to add an ironic commentary on the plot.In the final 40 pages of the novel, Hemon unfurls scenes of gratuitous violence that involve some characters even less likable than Joshua and his vengeful, drug-drenched landlord Stagger, a Desert Storm veteran wielding a samurai sword, getting their just desserts. But these episodes are more squirm-inducing than satisfying, and leave us with the uneasy feeling that Joshua finally has dug himself a hole from which no amount of imaginative screenwriting and repentance will allow him to escape.Scene to scene, THE MAKING OF ZOMBIE WARS vibrates with energy and madcap humor, but in the end, and most disappointingly for a writer of Hemon's unquestionable skill, it's much less than the sum of its parts. Hemon can be brilliant at setting up promising scenes or in firing out dialogue that sizzles with wit. It's too bad his prodigious talent wasn't better deployed in what could have been a black comedy classic.Reviewed by Harvey Freedenberg
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