The Yiddish Policemen's Union
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Michael Chabon
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.
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Author
Michael Chabon
Pages
464
Publisher
Harper Collins
Published Date
2012-01-24
ISBN
0062124587 9780062124586
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"Try as I might I cannot get into Michael Chabon. I've tried, really I have. A bunch of times....the older I get the less patience I have for books that I'm not enjoying. I just don't force nyself to read them. I read about 20 or 30 pages and couldn't continue"
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Sherrie Guerin
"Meh...I usually like Chabon. This one, not so much. I did get invested in some of characters by the end, but I kept getting confused by the names of the secondary characters. This just took a while to take off for me."
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