Hugo and Nebula award #19
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union By Michael Chabon
One line summary: In an alternative history set 60 years after the USA has given temporary safe haven to the Jewish people after the 1948 Holocaust and the collapse of the fledging state of of Israel, homicide detective Meyer Landsman has to investigate a muder committed in the hotel he has been staying in.
Rating: Recommend to others
Format:
Print book
Narration:N/A
Chapters: 46
Pages / Length: 411
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Part of the Hugo and Nebula award winners reading challenge
Opening line "Nine months Landsman's been flopping at the Hotel Zamenhof without any of his fellow residents managaing to get themselves murdered."
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