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| Forfatter: Michael ChabonOgså kendt som: Michael Chabon ed., Mark Chabon, ed. Chabon, MIchael, Michael Chabon editor, Michael Chalon, Michael Chapon, Michael Editor: Chabon ... (see complete list), CHABON M, Michael Chabon, Michael Chabon editor
Michael Chabon har 2 kommende arrangementer | 1 tidligere arrangementer. Books Inc Palo Alto: Michael Chabon (maj 13 kl. 19:00) Michael Chabon læser fra The Yiddish Policemen’s Union. Books Inc. welcomes Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon for the paperback release of The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, an homage to the stylish menace of 1940s noir, a novel that imagines if Alaska, not Israel, had become the homeland for the Jews after World War II.
For sixty years, Jewish refugees ... (mere)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.
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Michael Chabon is the bestselling author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, the novelist Ayelet Waldman, and their children.
tilføjet af booksincpa. Books Inc. in the Castro: Online Book Group (juli 31 kl. 19:00) Month of July, 2008
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Books Inc. in the Castro proudly announces the first selection for our online reading group: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon.
For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have ... (mere)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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tilføjet af amadeus06. Sunriver Books & Music: Mystery Book Club (september 22 kl. 18:30) What if the Jewish homeland was in Sitka Alaska? Now imagine it only had a fifty year right to the land, throw in a murder and you have a hint of The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon. We should have a lively discussion for the Mystery Book Club this month!
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