Michael Chabon (b. 1963) is an acclaimed and bestselling author whose works include the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000). Chabon achieved literary fame at age twenty-four with his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), which was a major critical and commercial success. He then published Wonder Boys (1995), another bestseller, which was made into a film starring Michael Douglas. One of America’s most distinctive voices, Chabon has been called “a magical prose stylist” by the New York Times Book Review, and is known for his lively writing, nostalgia for bygone modes of storytelling, and deep empathy for the human predicament.
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 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. </p>
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. </p>
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. </p>
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評分 評分本書屬於架空曆史類型,但這裏此書也沒什麼亮點,書中所描述的另一種曆史沒什麼特色,除瞭猶太人跑到瞭阿拉斯加以外其他和我們所在的現實沒什麼區彆(或者說此書並沒有對這種區彆做深入的描述)。此書最大的優點是語言,作者的行文很精彩,充滿瞭幽默,讓你在讀的時候忍不住要...
評分本書屬於架空曆史類型,但這裏此書也沒什麼亮點,書中所描述的另一種曆史沒什麼特色,除瞭猶太人跑到瞭阿拉斯加以外其他和我們所在的現實沒什麼區彆(或者說此書並沒有對這種區彆做深入的描述)。此書最大的優點是語言,作者的行文很精彩,充滿瞭幽默,讓你在讀的時候忍不住要...
評分Michael Chabon這鳥人整閤類型小說的能力再次令人驚嘆,冷硬,警察程序,科幻,政治,或然曆史,喜歡以上幾種的,這本小說基本都能夠讓你滿意,相較之下,獲得大大小小的奬項和提名也就不足為奇瞭.
圖書標籤: 科幻 美國 小說 懸疑 猶太 宗教 外國文學 幽默
沒法客觀評價哈哈哈
評分強悍的,現代感十足的文風。過度自我的形式也帶來瞭一些問題,特彆是當內容和形式的結閤並不那麼自然。
評分三星半,對這類題材就抱著看看的態度。。。
評分三星半,對這類題材就抱著看看的態度。。。
評分架空曆史小說寫作指南。
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