
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Signed First Edition)
Signed First Edition From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author comes a monumental work of imagination and his first full-length adult novel since the bestselling The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay What if, as Franklin Roosevelt once proposed, Alaska—and not Israel—had become the homeland for the Jews after World War II? In Michael Chabon’s Yiddish-speaking “Alyeska,” Orthodox gangs in side curls and knee breeches roam the streets of Sitka, where Detective Meyer Landsman discovers the corpse of a heroin-addled chess prodigy in the flophouse Meyer calls home. Marionette strings stretch back to the hands of charismatic Rebbe Gold, leader of a sect that seems to have drawn its M.O. from la Cosa Nostra—but behind the rebbe looms an even larger shadow. . . . Despite sensible protests from Berko, his half-Tlingit, half-Jewish partner, Meyer 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