The Yiddish Policemen's Union Paperback - 2008
by Michael Chabon
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" pens an homage to the stylish menace of 1940s noir, in a novel that imagines if Alaska, not Israel, had become the homeland for the Jews after World War II.
From the rear cover
For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. But now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end.
Homicide detective Meyer Landsman of the District Police has enough problems without worrying about the upcoming Reversion. His life is a shambles, his marriage a wreck, his career a disaster. And in the cheap hotel where Landsman has washed up, someone has just committed a murder--right under his nose. When he begins to investigate the killing of his neighbor, a former chess prodigy, word comes down from on high that the case is to be dropped immediately, and Landsman finds himself contending with all the powerful forces of faith, obsession, evil, and salvation that are his heritage.
At once a gripping whodunit, a love story, and an exploration of the mysteries of exile and redemption, The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a novel only Michael Chabon could have written.
Details
- Title The Yiddish Policemen's Union
- Author Michael Chabon
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1ST
- Pages 464
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
- Date 2008-04-29
- Features Glossary
- ISBN 9780007149834 / 0007149832
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.5 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 3.81 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Cultural Region: Pacific Northwest
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Geographic Orientation: Alaska
- Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Murder - Investigation
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
Citations
- Commonweal, 06/20/2008, Page 24
- New York Times Book Review, 06/01/2008, Page 52
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