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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.
Biographie de l'auteur
Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Mysteries of Pittsburgh, A Model World, Wonder Boys, Werewolves In Their Youth, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Final Solution, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Maps & Legends, Gentlemen of the Road, and the middle-grade book Summerland.
He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, the novelist Ayelet Waldman, and their children.
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A cell phone is a "Shoyfer," a gun a "Cholem" (you may need to brush up on your Yiddish) and what are Jews doing in a remote corner of Alaska? Note quite the promised land (it seems to rain all the time) but history-as-we-know-it has been changed somewhat. The Holocaust has run its course, Hitler being finally defeated in 1946 thanks to a few A-bombs, and refugees have been slaughtered in Palestine during the 1947/1948 war. In its infinite generosity, the US government proposes a temporary settlement to survivors in a remote part of Alaska. A few months before "Reversion," when Jews are to find a new home -but where?- this beautifully crafted thriller takes the reader into the tensions, the conflicts, the anguish that accompany this momentous event, through the investigation of a down-at-the-heels Jewish detective who tries to snake his way through a murder as mysterious as its victim. Orthodox Jews, Russian no-goodnicks, chess-playing junkies, a half-Jewish/half Indian detective and his brood, a murder that takes us back into an older one, a red heifer (yes, a red heifer!), an authoritarian ex-wife in a position of authority, the list is long. Michael Chabon has written a masterpiece, riveting to the end.
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i loved gentlemen of the road, but this one i couldn't get into and didn't finish
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