Journal Entry 1 by hippolein from Helsinki, Uusimaa Finland on Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Harper 2007
418 pages

Product Description
The brilliantly original new novel from Michael Chabon, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning 'The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay' 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 Yiddish beat. Now, after sixty years of federal neglect, 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 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 then someone's got the nerve to commit a murder in the flophouse Landsman calls home. Out of habit, obligation and a half-cocked shot at redemption, he begins to investigate the killing of his neighbor, a former chess prodigy, and soon finds himself contending with all the powerful forces of faith, obsession, 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. 

Journal Entry 2 by hippolein at Helsinki, Uusimaa Finland on Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Released 1 yr ago (6/1/2010 UTC) at Helsinki, Uusimaa Finland

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

First try-out of release on new version of the site.
Hope it works out - controlled release to fellow BC-member at a meetup in the centre of Helsinki at noon 

Journal Entry 3 by Nauris at Helsinki, Uusimaa Finland on Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Thank you Hippolein. I've never read this author before. Hope the story is as good as they make it sound with all the praise in the covers. 

Journal Entry 4 by Nauris at Helsinki, Uusimaa Finland on Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Released 3 mos ago (2/8/2012 UTC) at Helsinki, Uusimaa Finland

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I gave this to a member in our book club. Have fun reading