Arts
Hear an author who never fails to astound as he discusses his mastery of prose and what it's like to be compared with Vladimir Nabokov, in conversation with journalist Alex Clark. Award-winning Sarajevo-born author Aleksandar Hemon presents 'The Making of Zombie Wars', his first novel since 2008's 'The Lazarus Project'. A book of darkly comic chaos and interpersonal disaster, Zombie Wars offers readers a meta-fictional insight into the life of the author and the contemporary renaissance of zombie fiction, unpicking its connections with cultural violence across all levels. Written in the author's glorious and inventive prose—in a language the author learned well into adulthood, no less—the dazzlingly original Hemon wrestles a genre imbued with cliché in a work at once hilarious and morbid, serious and surreal, offering us both piercing social commentary and a bevy of emotionally insightful characters.