The Yiddish Policemen's Union
The starting premise of Michael Chabon's novel rests on a single historical factoid: On the eve of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt suggested that European Jewish refugees be resettled in the Alaskan territory. From this tiny nugget, the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist...
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The starting premise of Michael Chabon's novel rests on a single historical factoid: On the eve of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt suggested that European Jewish refugees be resettled in the Alaskan territory. From this tiny nugget, the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist constructs a richly hued noir alternate history/mystery fable, complete with Yiddish jargon and gangster argot.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780062124586 (0062124587)
Publish date: January 24th 2012
Publisher: Harper
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
I liked and disliked different aspects of this book. This is a detective noir-type story, set in an alternate version of Alaska where most of the Jews were resettled after World War II and have built a Yiddish community. Despite the alternate history setting, this doesn’t have any science fiction ...
I’ll admit that I more or less gave up on reading this book on page twenty-six, when I was completely overwhelmed by the prospect of sitting through hours and hours and almost four hundred more pages of what I had read so far. So I started skimming, reading a sentence or two in this paragraph, then ...
It is not great, but it is not bad. Only 20% in and we already got a feel on the Jewish department feel about their "reconstruction". 3 and a half stars working its way up. So far, 40% of the book is finished and yet we are not getting closer to the killer. We found out the victim was the so...
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"Nobody has that much weight," Landsman says. "Not even the Verbover rebbe." Berko ducks his head and gives his shoulders a half-shrug, as if he doesn't want to say anything more lest terrible forces be unleashed, scourges and plagues and holy tornadoes. "Just because you don't believe in miracl...
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