Nine months Landsman's been flopping at the Hotel Zamenhof without any of his fellow residents managing to get themselves murdered.
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
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by Michael Chabon
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What if - as Franklin Roosevelt once proposed Alaska, not Israel, had become the homeland for the Jews after Vorld War II?
In Michael Chabon's Yiddish-speaking 'Alyeska', Detective Meyer Landsman discovers the corpse of a heroin-addled chess prodigy. Suspicion falls upon Rebbe Gold, leader of a secretive sect. But behind Rebbe looms an even larger shadow. Nieyer is determined to unsnarl the meaning behind the murder. Even if that means surrendering his badge and his dignity to the chief of Sitka's homicide unit - also known as his fearsome ex-wife...
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El sindicato de policía Yiddish
2012-06, Debolsillo
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel
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Originally published: London: Fourth Estate, 2007.
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a 2007 novel by American author Michael Chabon. The novel is a detective story set in an alternative history version of the present day, based on the premise that during World War II, a temporary settlement for Jewish refugees was established in Sitka, Alaska, in 1941, and that the fledgling State of Israel was destroyed in 1948. The novel is set in Sitka, which it depicts as a large, Yiddish-speaking metropolis.
The Yiddish Policemen's Union won a number of science fiction awards: the Nebula Award for Best Novel, the Locus Award for Best SF Novel, the Hugo Award for Best Novel, and the Sidewise Award for Alternate History for Best Novel. It was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel and the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel.
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