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The brilliantly original new novel from Michael Chabon, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning 'The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay' For sixty years ...Show synopsisThe brilliantly original new novel from Michael Chabon, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning 'The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay' 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 revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Proud, grateful and longing to be American, the Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant, gritty, soulful and complex frontier city that moves to the Yiddish beat. Now, after sixty years of federal neglect, the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end: once again the tides of history threaten to sweep them up and carry them off into the unknown. But homicide detective Meyer Landsman has enough problems without worrying about the upcoming Reversion. His life is a shambles, his marriage a wreck, his career a disaster. He and his half-Tlingit partner, Berko Shemets, can't catch a break in any of their outstanding cases. Landsman's new supervisor is the love of his life -- and also his worst nightmare. And then someone's got the nerve to commit a murder in the flophouse Landsman calls home. Out of habit, obligation and a half-cocked shot at redemption, he begins to investigate the killing of his neighbor, a former chess prodigy, and soon finds himself contending with all the powerful forces of faith, obsession, evil and salvation that are his heritage -- and with the unfinished business of his marriage to Bina Gelbfish, the one person who understands his darkest fears. At once a gripping whodunit, a love story, an homage to 1940s noir, and an exploration of the mysteries of exile and redemption, "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" is a novel only Michael Chabon could have written.Hide synopsis
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I love to read - especially works that are well written in modern english. Chabon writes with colors. His sentences are little worlds that need to be explored. As you read through
the text, you wonder how a writer could craft a story with such brilliant descriptions. I found myself going back to ...
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I not only really wanted to like The Yiddish Policemen?s Union by Michael Chabon, I expected to love it. Chabon is one of my favorite authors, and Kavalier and Clay is a true masterpiece. However, his latest novel is a far cry from, really, any of his previous works.
An alternate-history book that ...
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In this ambitious novel, Michael Chabon carries on the great literary tradition of crafting an alternate universe from the jumping off point of WWII. Just like Phillip K. Dick's "The Man in The High Castle" and Phillip Roth's "The Plot Against America", Chabon's Policemen's Union dissects the many ...
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This book by Michael Chabon - who I *thought* could do no wrong - woefully disappointed me. While I'm glad to see that others really liked it, and I agree that the writing itself is up to his usual high standards, I didn't like the story OR the characters.
So ... what next? I'm going to give Chabon ...
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