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Award-winning Michael Chabon crafts
a hard-boiled mystery thriller out of an alternate history idea – what if
Alaska had been chosen as the Jews homeland after World War II instead of
Israel. Drunken detective Meyer Landsman must investigate the murder of a
heroin-addicted chess prodigy who happens to be the son of a renowned rabbi.
No-one wants the case solved, but our intrepid detective must unravel the clues
to dark secrets. This story is written in a style that breathes the Yiddish
culture of this imagined state, and with the tough grit of detective noir,
creating a truly unique novel.
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