The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Novel by Michael Chabon
Originally published: May 1, 2007
Author: Michael Chabon
Cover artist: Jacket design by Will Staehle
Language: English, some Yiddish
Pages: 414 (first edition, hardcover)
The novel is a detective story set in an alternative history version of the present day, based on the premise that during World War II, a temporary settlement ...
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May 13, 2007 · Michael Chabon's new novel is a screwball, hard-boiled whodunit set in a Jewish settlement in Alaska.
After a run-in with the gangsters, Landsman visits the local police department, where he is shown a mystery they have been pondering: a strange pen full of cows ...
Jun 9, 2007 · Michael Chabon's ingenious but flawed thriller The Yiddish Policemen's Union relocates the Promised Land to Alaska, says Adam Mars-Jones.
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They are the "frozen Chosen," two million people living, dying and kvetching in Sitka, Alaska, the temporary homeland established for displaced World War II ...
This post-war Alaskan Jewish world is richly imagined and painstakingly detailed with life unfolding for its inhabitants as life tends to do, in a messy, ...