The Yiddish Policemen's Union
by Michael Chabon · first published 2006
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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
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…back in the day, at a consulting firm working w/ their website; at the time -- and perhaps still? -- they worked in gender-segregated areas when on site. More randomness for the hell of it: I read the Yiddish Policemen's Union the other week and cannot recommend it highly enough. (It's a noir detective alt-history set in a Jewish analogue of Hong Kong in Alaska, where the local organized crime are Hasidic, the slang name for…
on “Spolsky: Why Circuit City Failed, and Why B&H Thrives” ↗…awards. Also: (a) go read it - it's got a system of magic that is as hard as any magical faster than light technology in a space opera, and (b) Gaiman won with American Gods and The Graveyard Book. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union won in 2008. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire won.
on “N. K. Jemisin’s Dream Worlds” ↗…releasing their books in EBook format. I find it strange that so many of the books that I want to purchase haven't been released in Kindle format. Even books that are obvious candidates, such as "The Yiddish Policemen's Union." It's an award winning Novel (2007 Nebula, 2008 Hugo), Science Fiction, and has been out for more than four years. And yet, still not available in electronic format. As more and more people pick…
on “E-book sales top paperbacks for first time” ↗I've read a little of both. Regardless of what we label it as, would you agree that some recent winners (specifically I'll say Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, The City & the City, Ancillary Justice, and The Three-Body Problem) are in some sense alike, that they form a different cluster from the list of older winners in my previous comment? That these newer…
on “When Popular Fiction Isn’t Popular: Genre, Literary, and the Myths of Popularity” ↗