The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Paperback, 552 pages

English language

Published March 19, 2008 by W F Howes.

ISBN:
978-1-4074-1384-6
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OCLC Number:
258061876

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3 stars (1 review)

What if - as Franklin Roosevelt once proposed Alaska, not Israel, had become the homeland for the Jews after \Vorld War II?

In Michael Chabon's Yiddish-speaking 'Alyeska', Detective Meyer Landsman discovers the corpse of a heroin-addled chess prodigy. Suspicion falls upon Rebbe Gold, leader of a secretive sect. But behind Rebbe looms an even larger shadow. Nieyer 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...

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Pribeh se sice odehrava v alternativni casove linii, kdy Amerika prijala Zidy ve velkym na Aljasce, ale jinak je to spis detektivka. Zapletka v posledni tretine dost graduje a vlastne me zaujala. Knizka zpocatku trpela zbytecne okridlenym jazykem, casem si to sedlo.

Jako ok, ale znovu bych si to nedal.

It's more of detective story despite placed in alternative timeline where jews fled to Alaska. I've had hard times to cope with the superfluous language/too many words at beginning, but it calmed down a little after some hundred pages.

Not bad, not fantastic, read & forget.

Subjects

  • Drug addicts
  • Murder
  • Investigation
  • Jews
  • Crimes against
  • Fiction

Places

  • Alaska