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Original Title:	The Yiddish Policemen's Union
ISBN:	0007149824 (ISBN13: 9780007149827)
Edition Language:	English URL https://www.harpercollins.com/9780007149827/the-yiddish-policemens-union/
Characters:	Meyer Landsman, Berko Shemets, Bina Gelbfish, Ester-Malke Shemets, Hertz Shemets, Alter Litvak, Mendel Shpilman, Itzik Zimbalist, Naomi Landsman
Setting:	Sitka, Alaska(United States)
Literary Awards:	Hugo Award for Best Novel (2008), Nebula Award for Best Novel (2007), Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (2008), Hammett Prize Nominee (2007), California Book Award for Fiction (Gold) (2007) John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (2008), Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel (2008), Sidewise Award for Long Form (2007), Seiun Award 星雲賞 Nominee for Best Translated Long Form (2010)

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Michael Chabon

Hardcover | Pages: 414 pages

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Title	:	The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Author	:	Michael Chabon
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition (US/CAN)
Pages	:	Pages: 414 pages
Published	:	May 1st 2007 by HarperCollins
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Science Fiction. Alternate History. Crime

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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 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. (front flap)

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Just starting, been wanting to read this for a long time.

I picked up a copy of The Yiddish Policemens Union by Michael Chabon purely out of curiosity. This novel was nominated for, and won, the prestigious Hugo Award. The Hugo Award is for outstanding science fiction and I have never seen The Yiddish Policemens Union on the science fiction/fantasy bookshelves in any bookstore. Its only been in the mainstream fiction section. Now that Ive read it, I still dont understand how it won the Hugo. True, it is an alternate history; but its a socio-political

Many years ago, after I'd finished off The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, one of my all-time favourites, I decided to follow up on my personal Chabon binge with The Yiddish Policeman's Union. For one reason or another, I made it about 50 pages deep and abandoned the entire book. I sat it next to its better known counterpart on a shelf where it would rest for many years. Then, suddenly, it became a book club pick and I saw it as a sign to dig in and give this book another kick at the

I would call this urban fantasy only by the skin of it's teeth. In fact, sci-fi / mystery might be most appropriate. Alternate reality very like this, except that it takes in a Jewish settlement, a carved out area of Alaska, that is going to "revert" to Alaska in the coming year. More about identity and homelands.

You know that fashion rule where, before you leave the house, you're supposed to quickly turn to a mirror and then take off the first accessory that catches your eye? Well, I feel like Chabon should have done that with his prose, which is sometimes so ridiculously overwritten and boastful that it ruined an otherwise pretty interesting story. With some writers, I want them to put on another accessory or two--please, would some bangle bracelets kill you?--but with Chabon I'm like, Dude, before you

Christmas 2010: I realised that I had got stuck in a rut. I was re-reading old favourites again and again, waiting for a few trusted authors to release new works. Something had to be done.On the spur of the moment I set myself a challenge, to read every book to have won the Locus Sci-Fi award. Thats 35 books, 6 of which Id previously read, leaving 29 titles by 14 authors who were new to me.While working through this reading list I got married, went on my honeymoon, switched career and became a

(B+) 77% | GoodNotes: It starts well and gets interesting in the middle, but the endings an afterthought and the text is befuddlingly flowery.