Read by Peter Riegert

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 the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of
Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world
in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant and complex frontier city that moves
to the music of Yiddish. But now the District is set to revert to Alaskan
control, and their dream is coming to an end.

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. And in the cheap
hotel where Landsman has washed up, someone has just committed a murder.
right under his nose. When he begins to investigate the killing of his
neighbor, a former chess prodigy, word comes down from on high that the
case is to be dropped immediately, and Landsman finds himself contending
with all the powerful forces of faith, obsession, evil and salvation that
are his heritage.

At once a gripping whodunit, a love story, and an exploration of the
mysteries of exile and redemption, The Yiddish Policemen's Union is
a novel only Michael Chabon could have written.

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