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Books : The Yiddish Policemen's Union CD: A Novel

by: Michael Chabon

: The Yiddish Policemen's Union CD: A Novel

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Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780060823566
Format: Unabridged
ISBN: 0060823569
Label: HarperAudio
Manufacturer: HarperAudio
Number Of Items: 10
Publication Date: May 01, 2007
Publisher: HarperAudio
Release Date: May 01, 2007
Studio: HarperAudio
Sales Rank: 354170

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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 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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- Lets go aain
It is part science fiction and part mystery. Or Yiddish Policeman is fully both. Thus just by that it is hard to classify. Whether you have a Yiddish background, or great exposure to a Jewish heritage, or an Alaskan one, the world creation by Chabon elevates this story to a level beyond the common in either genre.

Yiddish Policeman's is a very good book. It is a well deserved edition of exceptional literature. An achievement and worth reading. Is the mystery a little weak and perhaps ... Read More

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- Hard to get through...
This was another book club suggestion. I had a hard time getting into the author's writing style. The first 100 pages or so were very difficult for me to read because (a)I kept having to flip back to the yiddush glossary, and (b)the author was overly descriptive for some things. I was also disappointed with the last quarter of the book. The underlining plot was a murder mystery, which I enjoyed the build up to the solve. However, when it was finally resolved, the book ended immediately. It felt ...more ... Read More

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- Alternate fun
Remember in the old Star Trek episode City on the Edge of Forever? Kirk saves Edith Keeler and some how Earth's timeline is altered. It's not until Spock discovers that Edith was a sort of lynch pin in time, that she had to die so Earth could go on its normal way. In The Yiddish Policeman's Union, the Pulitzer-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, the always entertaining Michael Chabon, takes a real historical idea - a-pie-in-the-sky proposal in 1940 to open up the Alaska Territory ... Read More

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- Please....ignore the bad reviews...
With mouth agape, I just read those negative reviews. I can't believe it, no, wait, I can. The book isn't easy, it isn't full of trashy scenes of greed, sex, easily understood 4th grade vocabulary or vampires. That must be it. The minute you tell me you read it for your book club, that's the minute I know why you trashed this book. Book clubs. Can't choose your own reading or need group validation so you know what's good? Can't discern that otherwise?

O.K...now for less vitriolic verbiage. This ... Read More

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- Great Read
A terrific read, super fiction and mystery that could have happened. Jews in Alaska...why not.
A Coen brothers Movie,for sure.

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Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780060823566
Format: Unabridged
ISBN: 0060823569
Label: HarperAudio
Manufacturer: HarperAudio
Number Of Items: 10
Publication Date: May 01, 2007
Publisher: HarperAudio
Release Date: May 01, 2007
Studio: HarperAudio
Sales Rank: 354170
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