The Resource The Yiddish policemen's union : a novel, Michael Chabon
The Yiddish policemen's union : a novel, Michael Chabon
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- Summary
- For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal Distric 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. -- From dust jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 414 pages
- Isbn
- 9780007149834
- Label
- The Yiddish policemen's union : a novel
- Title
- The Yiddish policemen's union
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Michael Chabon
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal Distric 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. -- From dust jacket
- Awards note
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- Hugo Award for Best Novel, 2008.
- Nebula Award for Best Novel, 2007.
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Chabon, Michael
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Interest level
- Grades 9-12
- LC call number
- PS3553.H15
- LC item number
- Y54 2007
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
- 000123751
- Reading level
- 6.1
- Study program name
- Accelerated Reader
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Jews
- Alaska
- Murder
- American fiction
- Alaska
- Label
- The Yiddish policemen's union : a novel, Michael Chabon
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm73140283
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 414 pages
- Isbn
- 9780007149834
- Lccn
- 2006049751
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)73140283
- Label
- The Yiddish policemen's union : a novel, Michael Chabon
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm73140283
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 414 pages
- Isbn
- 9780007149834
- Lccn
- 2006049751
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)73140283
Subject
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
- Alternative histories -- Fiction
- American fiction -- 21st century
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Dust jackets -- 21st century
- Jews -- Fiction
- Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
- Mystery fiction
- Alaska -- Fiction
- Romance fiction
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
Genre
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Dust jackets
- Fiction
- Mystery fiction
- Romance fiction
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
- Alternative histories
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