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This is the brilliantly original new novel from Michael Chabon, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning 'The Adventures of Kavalier and Klay'. What if, as Franklin Roosevelt once proposed, Alaska - and not Israel - had become the homeland for the Jews after World War II? In Michael Chabon's Yiddish-speaking 'Alyeska', Orthodox gangs in side-curls and knee breeches roam the streets of Sitka, where Detective Meyer Landsman discovers the corpse of a heroin-addled chess prodigy in the flophouse Meyer calls home. Marionette strings stretch back to the hands of charismatic Rebbe Gold, leader of a sect that seems to have drawn its mission statement from the Cosa Nostra - but behind Rebbe looms an even larger shadow! Despite sensible protests from Berko, his half-Tlingit, half-Jewish partner, Meyer is determined to unsnarl the meaning behind the murder. Even if that means surrendering his badge and his dignity to the chief of Sitka's homicide unit - also known as his fearsome ex-wife, Bina. "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" interweaves an homage to the stylish menace of 1940s noir with a bittersweet fable of identity, home and faith. It is a novel of colossal ambition and heart from one of the most important and beloved writers working today.
Genre: Mystery
Genre: Mystery
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May 2007 : UK Hardback
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Title: The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Author(s): Michael Chabon
ISBN: 0-7394-8949-6 / 978-0-7394-8949-9 (USA edition)
Publisher: Harper Collins
Availability: Amazon
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March 2021 : USA Audio CD
March 2021 : USA Audio CD
July 2016 : USA Audio edition

Title: The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel
Author(s): Michael Chabon
Publisher: HarperAudio
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July 2016 : Canada Audio edition

Title: The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel
Author(s): Michael Chabon
Publisher: HarperAudio
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May 2007 : USA Audio CD
2007 : USA Audio Cassette

Title: The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Author(s): Michael Chabon
ISBN: 1-4193-7573-3 / 978-1-4193-7573-6 (USA edition)
Publisher: Recorded Books LLC
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2007 : USA Audio Cassette

Title: The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Author(s): Michael Chabon
ISBN: 1-4193-7574-1 / 978-1-4193-7574-3 (USA edition)
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
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2007 : USA Audio CD

Title: The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Author(s): Michael Chabon
ISBN: 1-4193-7575-X / 978-1-4193-7575-0 (USA edition)
Publisher: Recorded Books
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