Chabon, Michael. The Yiddish policemen's union.CHABON, Michael. The Yiddish policemen's union. Read by Peter Riegert. 10 cds. 12.5 hrs. Harper Audio. 2007. 978-0-06-082356-6. $39.95. Cardboard; plot, author, reader notes. A Chabon's latest novel imagines what would have resulted if, in 1948, displaced European Jews were granted temporary asylum in Alaska. It's no challenge for Chabon, who has effortlessly created a police procedural police procedural n. A story or drama about the investigation of a crime by the police. police procedural Noun a novel, film, or television drama that deals with police work set in a diverse Jewish community, populated pop·u·late tr.v. pop·u·lat·ed, pop·u·lat·ing, pop·u·lates 1. To supply with inhabitants, as by colonization; people. 2. with characters as believable as they are memorable. Now 60 years have passed, and the Sitka, Alaska “Sitka” redirects here. For the tree, see Sitka Spruce. The City and Borough of Sitka is a unified city-borough located on the west side of Baranof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of the Pacific Ocean (part of the Alaska Panhandle), in the U.S. state of Alaska. settlement is only months away from the diaspora that will return the land to the Indians and scatter the Jews throughout the world. In this political climate protagonist/detective Meyer Landsman lands·man 1 n. One who lives and works on land. Noun 1. landsman - a person who lives and works on land landlubber, landman and his half-Indian, half-Jewish partner investigate the murder of the estranged es·trange tr.v. es·tranged, es·trang·ing, es·trang·es 1. To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate. 2. To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations. mystical son of an influential rabbi. Various members of the community, to say nothing of his ex-wife/boss and the US Department of Justice, want this investigation stopped. Landsman, who believes the murder is somehow linked to the death of his own sister, plows on. Chabon's ear for the touching self-mockery so characteristic of Jewish humor is superb. Riegert's ear is, if anything, even better. His pacing and his character differentiation are exceptional. Francine Levitov, Attorney, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY A--Recommended for advanced students and adults. This code will help librarians and teachers working in high schools where there are honors and advanced placement students. This also will help extend KLIATT's usefulness in public libraries. |
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