The Yiddish policemen's union
(Book - Regular Print)

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Published
New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [2007].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
414 pages ; 24 cm
Status
Cottonwood Public Library - FIC - Fiction Books
CHABON
1 available
Sedona Public Library - MYSTERY - Mystery Collection
MYSTERY CHABON, M.
1 available
Yavapai College Prescott - LIMBO - Items being donated to other libraries
PS3553.H15Y54 2007
1 available

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Published
New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [2007].
Format
Book - Regular Print
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 6.1, 20 Points

Notes

Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
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.
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader,Grades 9-12,6.1,20,SD,Quiz 125012,English fiction.
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader AR,UG,6.1,20,125012.
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader,Grades 9-12,6.1,20,SD,Quiz 125012,English fiction.
Awards
Hugo Award for Best Novel, 2008.
Awards
Nebula Award for Best Novel, 2007.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Chabon, M. (2007). The Yiddish policemen's union (First edition.). HarperCollins Publishers.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Chabon, Michael. 2007. The Yiddish Policemen's Union. HarperCollins Publishers.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Chabon, Michael. The Yiddish Policemen's Union HarperCollins Publishers, 2007.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Chabon, Michael. The Yiddish Policemen's Union First edition., HarperCollins Publishers, 2007.

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