Michael Chabon (b. 1963) is an acclaimed and bestselling author whose works include the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000). Chabon achieved literary fame at age twenty-four with his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), which was a major critical and commercial success. He then published Wonder Boys (1995), another bestseller, which was made into a film starring Michael Douglas. One of America’s most distinctive voices, Chabon has been called “a magical prose stylist” by the New York Times Book Review, and is known for his lively writing, nostalgia for bygone modes of storytelling, and deep empathy for the human predicament.
For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Proud, grateful, and longing to be American, the Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant, gritty, soulful, and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. For sixty years they have been left alone, neglected and half-forgotten in a backwater of history. Now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end: once again the tides of history threaten to sweep them up and carry them off into the unknown. </p>
But homicide detective Meyer Landsman of the District Police has enough problems without worrying about the upcoming Reversion. His life is a shambles, his marriage a wreck, his career a disaster. He and his half-Tlingit partner, Berko Shemets, can't catch a break in any of their outstanding cases. Landsman's new supervisor is the love of his life—and also his worst nightmare. And in the cheap hotel where he has washed up, someone has just committed a murder—right under Landsman's nose. Out of habit, obligation, and a mysterious sense that it somehow offers him a shot at redeeming himself, Landsman begins to investigate the killing of his neighbor, a former chess prodigy. But when word comes down from on high that the case is to be dropped immediately, Landsman soon finds himself contending with all the powerful forces of faith, obsession, hopefulness, evil, and salvation that are his heritage—and with the unfinished business of his marriage to Bina Gelbfish, the one person who understands his darkest fears. </p>
At once a gripping whodunit, a love story, an homage to 1940s noir, and an exploration of the mysteries of exile and redemption, The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a novel only Michael Chabon could have written. </p>
本书属于架空历史类型,但这里此书也没什么亮点,书中所描述的另一种历史没什么特色,除了犹太人跑到了阿拉斯加以外其他和我们所在的现实没什么区别(或者说此书并没有对这种区别做深入的描述)。此书最大的优点是语言,作者的行文很精彩,充满了幽默,让你在读的时候忍不住要...
评分 评分《犹太警察工会》---8分。本书获得了雨果奖、星云奖、轨迹奖和斜向奖四大科幻大奖,但内容和纯科幻关系不大,应当归于或然历史小说,也就是假想的历史背景下的小说。情节也并不复杂,但推理还是比较精巧,起码凶手直到揭示我也没想到会是他。。但作者迈克尔夏邦的语言真是太棒...
评分 评分“人类一计划,上帝就发笑”,读到这一句,我也想发笑,哈哈。同时,书里的幽默可见一斑,书的翻译是蛮到位而且时不时有妙点冒出。我想,原著一定也是充满了许多不动声色的幽默与诙谐。 《犹太警察工会》,读到1/3,忍不住想写点读感。书名有“工会”字样,可到现在无工会之实...
2008年星云奖作品,文笔非常奇特。
评分写得很差,盛名之下,其实难副。
评分架空历史小说写作指南。
评分强悍的,现代感十足的文风。过度自我的形式也带来了一些问题,特别是当内容和形式的结合并不那么自然。
评分强悍的,现代感十足的文风。过度自我的形式也带来了一些问题,特别是当内容和形式的结合并不那么自然。
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