The Making of Zombie Wars is a hilarious black comedy from Aleksandar Hemon, celebrated author of The Lazarus Project . Script idea #142: Aliens undercover as cabbies abduct the fiancee of the main character, who has to find a way to a remote planet to save her. Josh Levin is an aspiring screenwriter teaching English as a Second Language 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. 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. 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. 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. Disaster ensues and, as Josh''s choices move from silly to profoundly absurd, Aleksandar Hemon''s The Making of Zombie Wars takes on real consequence. '' The Making of Zombie Wars is crazy in the best sense of the word, and very few authors could have pulled it off'' - NPR

A fast-paced, darkly comic tale set in Chicago . . . ends with a transmutational flourish that is deeply and comically satisfying.

Vorwort
The seriously funny rollercoaster ride of a novel that Aleksandar Hemon has long promised

Autorentext
Aleksandar Hemon was born in Sarajevo and lives in Chicago. He is the author of The Question of Bruno, Nowhere Man, Love and Obstacles, and The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work also appears regularly in the New Yorker and Granta, among other publications.

Klappentext

'Exhilaratingly astute' Sunday Times

Joshua Levin goes by many names: Jo to his girlfriend, Jackie to his family, Jonjo to his ex-marine, PTSD-suffering landlord, and Teacher Josh to Ana: the married woman with whom he has started an affair. But perhaps the greatest role Josh will play is writer and creator of Zombie Wars, one screenplay that he will finish, unless Ana's violent husband makes good on his threat to bring things to a more permanent conclusion . . .

Just as Joshua throws caution to the winds, America finds itself in a moment of national crisis, and soon the headlines are filled with yet another war. As the stakes are raised from indulgence, to absurdity, to life and death, the world of Zombie Wars starts to look sane by comparison with what passes for reality.

'Caustic and tender, enraged and forgiving, giggly and plaintive' Scotland on Sunday

'A comic novel with BRAAAINS . . . Hemon is a master at camouflaging the deeper elements of this novel amid its tomfoolery' Washington Post

'A delightful ride through an ordinary life kicking into high, crazy gear. With zombies' Los Angeles Times

Zusammenfassung
A darkly hilarious rollercoaster ride through screenwriting, language classes, wild affairs and crushing disappointment. From Aleksandar Hemon, author of The World and All That It Holds.