false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178032098m/16703.jpg 16703 24 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&mdash;and also his worst nightmare. And in the cheap hotel where he has washed up, someone has just committed a murder&mdash;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&mdash;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, <i>The Yiddish Policemen's Union</i> is a novel only Michael Chabon could have written. 95855 book 1 5 2007 The Yiddish Policemen's Union total:11787|5:2226|4:4822|3:3244|2:1064|1:431| 11787 42709 19483 2853 5 21 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun May 06 12:46:09 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 03 15:28:35 -0700 2007 "I don't care what is written," Meyer Landsman says. "I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son's throat for the sake of a hare-brained idea. I don't care about red heifers and patriarchs and locu...more...]]> 2 17 false false Sun Dec 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 10:39:13 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 23:11:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 13 false false Wed May 07 17:45:10 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 17 17:00:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 12 false false Wed Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 16 13:27:29 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 03 16:50:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 12 false false Fri Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 15 19:06:11 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 20 18:43:14 -0700 2008 still barred or discouraged from immigrating to the various "democracies", and found themselves pushed into emigrating to the Middle East where, through a variety of histo...more...]]> 2 11 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 18 10:08:11 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 18 10:42:58 -0700 2007
Long story short: I still don't get why Michael Chabon is supposed to be one of the great writers of the 21st century. "Wonder Boys" was an enjoyable read....more...]]> 3 7 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 21 15:22:45 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 00:09:53 -0700 2007
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"Michael Chabon has spent considerable energy trying to drag the decaying corpse of genre fiction out of the shallow grave where writers of serious literature abandoned it."— Ruth Franklin (Slate, 8 May 2007)

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