The Yiddish Policemen's Union / Michael Chabon.

By:

Chabon, Michael [Author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : 4th Estate, 2010.Description: 411, 22 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

9780007150939 (pbk.)
0007150938 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Detective and mystery stories

DDC classification:

23 813.54 Cha

Summary: The scene: a junkie with a suspiciously good chess game is dead in a seedy hotel room. Enter homicide detective Meyer Landsman, broken-hearted and rough rough the edges, complete with a murdered sister, an ex-wife for a boss, and a liquor and nicotine diet. This long-time member of the Yiddish Policemen’s Union is already bent under the weight of a tower of unsolved cases, but is set on solving this one – despite a serous frost coming down from above, matched flake for flake by the weather in this chilly Jewish homeland. Snow in Israel? Not exactly. This Jewish homeland is Sitka, Alaska, and with their time up on the lease, God’s chosen people are facing an uncertain future. And Landsman? Now a badgeless, gunless cop with powerful enemies- well, he’s skating on very thin ice…

List(s) this item appears in: High School literature in English (Print Books)

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book Fiction	"Dimitris & Aliki Perrotis" Central Library	"Dimitris & Aliki Perrotis" Central Library	Book Fiction	813.54 Cha (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Lost		13019324

Total holds: 0

The scene: a junkie with a suspiciously good chess game is dead in a seedy hotel room. Enter homicide detective Meyer Landsman, broken-hearted and rough rough the edges, complete with a murdered sister, an ex-wife for a boss, and a liquor and nicotine diet. This long-time member of the Yiddish Policemen’s Union is already bent under the weight of a tower of unsolved cases, but is set on solving this one – despite a serous frost coming down from above, matched flake for flake by the weather in this chilly Jewish homeland. Snow in Israel? Not exactly. This Jewish homeland is Sitka, Alaska, and with their time up on the lease, God’s chosen people are facing an uncertain future. And Landsman? Now a badgeless, gunless cop with powerful enemies- well, he’s skating on very thin ice…

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Click on an image to view it in the image viewer