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This is the brilliantly original new novel from Michael Chabon, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning 'The Adventures of Kavalier and Klay'. 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 mission statement from the Cosa Nostra - but behind 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 unit - also known as his fearsome ex-wife, Bina. "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" interweaves an homage to the stylish menace of 1940s noir with a bittersweet fable of identity, home and faith. It is a novel of colossal ambition and heart from one of the most important and beloved writers working today.
 
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Hardback Editions

June 2007 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0007150393Title: The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Author(s): Michael Chabon
ISBN: 0-00-715039-3 / 978-0-00-715039-7 (UK edition)
Publisher: Fourth Estate
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May 2007 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0061438359Title: The Yiddish Policemen's Union, limited edition
Author(s): Michael Chabon
ISBN: 0-06-143835-9 / 978-0-06-143835-6 (USA edition)
Publisher: HarperCollins
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May 2007 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0007149824Title: The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Author(s): Michael Chabon
ISBN: 0-00-714982-4 / 978-0-00-714982-7 (UK edition)
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Paperback Editions

May 2008 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0007149832Title: The Yiddish Policemen's Union (P.S.)
Author(s): Michael Chabon
ISBN: 0-00-714983-2 / 978-0-00-714983-4 (UK edition)
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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March 2008 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0007150938Title: The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Author(s): Michael Chabon
ISBN: 0-00-715093-8 / 978-0-00-715093-9 (UK edition)
Publisher: HarperPerennial
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March 2008 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0007257406Title: Yiddish Policemen's Union, The
Author(s): Michael Chabon
ISBN: 0-00-725740-6 / 978-0-00-725740-9 (UK edition)
Publisher: HarperPerennial
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March 2008 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0007278276Title: Yiddish Policemen's Union, The
Author(s): Michael Chabon
ISBN: 0-00-727827-6 / 978-0-00-727827-5 (UK edition)
Publisher: HarperPerennial
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May 2007 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0007208065Title: Yiddish Policemen's Union, The
Author(s): Michael Chabon
ISBN: 0-00-720806-5 / 978-0-00-720806-7 (UK edition)
Publisher: Fourth Estate
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May 2007 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0061376949Title: The Yiddish Policemen's Union LP
Author(s): Michael Chabon
ISBN: 0-06-137694-9 / 978-0-06-137694-8 (USA edition)
Publisher: HarperLuxe
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Audio Editions

April 2007 : Audio CD
Cover of ISBN: 0060823569Title: The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Author(s): Michael Chabon
ISBN: 0-06-082356-9 / 978-0-06-082356-6 (USA edition)
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / Audio
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