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.
General
Imprint: |
HarperCollinsPublishers
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
May 2007 |
First published: |
May 2007 |
Authors: |
Michael Chabon
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Dimensions: |
234 x 163 x 35mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
432 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-00-714982-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Historical fiction
Books >
Fiction >
Promotions
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LSN: |
0-00-714982-4 |
Barcode: |
9780007149827 |
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