Read by Michael York

In The Final Solution, Michael Chabon has condensed his boundless vision
to craft a short, suspenseful tale of compassion and wit that re-imagines
the classic nineteenth-century detective story.

In deep retirement in the English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old
man, vaguely recollected by locals as a once-famous detective, is more
concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life
wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from
Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African gray parrot. What is
the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews
out -- a top-secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank accounts
perhaps? Or something more sinister? Is the solution to this last case
-- the real explanation of the mysterious boy and his parrot -- beyond
even the reach of the once-famed sleuth? Subtle revelations lead the
reader to a wrenching resolution.

This brilliant homage is the work of a master storyteller at the height
of his powers.

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