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The Yiddish Policemen's Union Hardcover - 2007

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.


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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 music of Yiddish. For sixty years they have been left alone, neglected and half-forgotten in a backwater of history. Now 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 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. 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 in the cheap hotel where he has washed up, someone has just committed a murder--right under Landsman's nose. Out of habit, obligation, and a mysterious sense that it somehow offers him a shot at redeeming himself, Landsman begins to investigate the killing of his neighbor, a former chess prodigy. But when word comes down from on high that the case is to be dropped immediately, Landsman soon finds himself contending with all the powerful forces of faith, obsession, hopefulness, 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.

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  • Title The Yiddish Policemen's Union
  • Author Michael Chabon
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st/1st
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper, New York
  • Date 2007-05-01
  • ISBN 9780007149827 / 0007149824
  • Weight 1.49 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.42 x 1.36 in (23.42 x 16.31 x 3.45 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: Pacific Northwest
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Geographic Orientation: Alaska
  • Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Murder - Investigation
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006049751
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 05/01/2007, Page 7
  • Booklist Editors Choice/Adult, 01/01/2008, Page 10
  • Booksense Picks, 05/01/2007, Page 1
  • Commonweal, 09/28/2007, Page 26
  • Entertainment Weekly, 12/28/2007, Page 144
  • Kirkus Reviews, 03/01/2007, Page 185
  • Lambda Book Report, 08/01/2008, Page 26
  • Library Journal, 03/01/2007, Page 68
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 01/01/2007, Page 66
  • LJ Best Books of Year, 12/01/2007, Page 72
  • Men's Journal, 06/01/2007, Page 34
  • New York Review of Books, 06/14/2007, Page 22
  • Newsweek, 05/07/2007, Page 63
  • NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 12/02/2007, Page 12
  • People Weekly, 05/21/2007, Page 58
  • Publishers Weekly, 03/05/2007, Page 34
  • Vanity Fair, 05/01/2007, Page 80
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