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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《猶太警察工會》---8分。本書獲得瞭雨果奬、星雲奬、軌跡奬和斜嚮奬四大科幻大奬,但內容和純科幻關係不大,應當歸於或然曆史小說,也就是假想的曆史背景下的小說。情節也並不復雜,但推理還是比較精巧,起碼凶手直到揭示我也沒想到會是他。。但作者邁剋爾夏邦的語言真是太棒...
評分 評分“人類一計劃,上帝就發笑”,讀到這一句,我也想發笑,哈哈。同時,書裏的幽默可見一斑,書的翻譯是蠻到位而且時不時有妙點冒齣。我想,原著一定也是充滿瞭許多不動聲色的幽默與詼諧。 《猶太警察工會》,讀到1/3,忍不住想寫點讀感。書名有“工會”字樣,可到現在無工會之實...
評分 評分圖書標籤: 科幻 美國 小說 懸疑 猶太 宗教 外國文學 幽默
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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。
評分讀瞭有一年多瞭。開始沒太看懂,接下來覺得跟科幻關係何在?作者到底在寫什麼?後來一點一點的宏大主題依次浮現。作者是用替換曆史為工具來寫猶太性。想象力,講故事的能力……有理性,有感傷!
評分寫得很差,盛名之下,其實難副。
評分架空曆史小說寫作指南。
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