Like Dashiell Hammett and [b:Raymond Chandler|2052|The Big Sleep|Raymond Chandler|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41AGA624Z5L._SL75_.jpg|1222673] and something else very good and extremely tasty. Only also very grievous because everyone has sadness. No-one gets a good life. But that's noir for...
A very satisfying novel. The alternate time line is coherent and subtly put. I needed to get used to the vocabulary and the whole range of Jewish faiths that Chabon's put into this noirish tale of the end of an impossible arrangement. Israel didn't last and Jews are in exile all over the world. Sit...
It's been a while since I've read other Michael Chabon works, but what strikes me about this book is his ability to create a world that works. I think that's one of the things I appreciated about Summerland as well, but I don't remember it as clearly. The setting, or world, that he creates is so c...
My father's family is Polish-Jewish. My paternal grandmother was fluent in Yiddish, and whenever I see my parents they talk incessantly about Israeli politics. I must have read at least half of Isaac Bashevis Singer at one time or another. Also, I'm a chess player. I even knew the chess problem in q...
What if Israel had not come into existence in 1948 and another solution had been found, namely the USA ceding a portion of coastal Alaska for a temporary Jewish state? Now add to that a noir crime yarn set in this fictional state. What’s not to like?Oy! This is a very slow-moving detective yarn, so...
Rating: 4.75* of fiveThe Book Report: A small, overlooked historical tidbit...very real and true...gives rise to a what-if novel of huge impact and fascination. What if Roosevelt's half-serious proposal to resettle European Jewry in the American territory of Alaska, made in 1939, had been accepted? ...
Chabon gives us an alternate history in which the Jewish nation, more or less, has wound up in Sitka, Alaska rather than the Middle East. It starts slow, which I apparently enjoyed more than some reviewers. I found the opening psychological and developmental sections more compelling than the later, ...
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