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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
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Hugo Award Winner 2008
Nebula Award 2007

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Bee
Sep 19, 2014 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: favourite, audiobook, reread, recommended-to-me, speculative-fiction
I don't even know how to describe how much I loved this book. I don't know any good Yiddish sayings to say it better with either. It's a who-done-it set in an alternate future where a large community of Jews (about 2 million) end in in Sitka Alaska and start a city. And that's all I'm going to say about that. Wonderfully entertaining, laugh out loud funny, and surprisingly dark and depressing at times. With a warm glow added at the end. The narrator did it great justice.

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Kevin Xu
Dec 22, 2010 rated it it was ok
Shelves: did-not-finish
I like what he going for here, but each chapter was different from the next, so it seemed like nothing connected, but it did for the overall plot.
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