The Yiddish policemen's union : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9780007149827 (acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 0007149824 (acid-free paper)
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Physical Description:
414 p. ; 24 cm. | text] :
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2007.
Content descriptions
General Note: | A murder mystery set in the imaginary Jewish homeland that is Alaska. A murder mystery set in the imaginery Jewish homeland that is Alaska. |
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Subject: | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction Jews -- Fiction Chess players -- Fiction Imaginary places -- Fiction Alaska -- Fiction |
Genre: | Alternative histories (Fiction). Mystery fiction. |
Available copies
- 12 of 13 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Creston Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 13 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Creston Public Library | FIC CHA (Text) | 35140000731516 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
"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 an American, the Jews of 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 the 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 case. Landman’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 fear."--