Sindikat jidiških policajaca
What would have happened if, on the eve of World War II, a proposal to create a temporary refuge for the Jewish people on the west coast of Alaska had been accepted?
Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Marvelous Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and Gentlemen and Adventurers, pursued this historical possibility and created an alternate world in which the Federal District of Sitka, a temporary homeland for displaced Jews from the war, actually exists. In this imagined parallel history, the state of Israel failed to hold its own in the Middle East, and the Jews created their own little isolated universe at the edge of the world, a colorful settlement where the coldness of the landscape mingles with Yiddish and Native American traditions.
Only the temporary refuge on Sitka should be returned to the administration of Alaska after sixty years, and the dreams of the Jewish people are on the verge of extinction. But that is not the main problem of local policeman Meyer Landsman. His marriage is falling apart, his career is failing - and the story begins when he wakes up one morning in a cheap hotel and discovers that someone has killed his neighbor, a former chess master. But when his superiors order him to immediately drop the murder investigation, Landsman finds himself caught in a vortex of powerful forces of faith, devotion, evil, and redemption—the forces that shape his legacy.
Chabon's unique blend of multicultural political satire, gripping thriller, love story, and puzzles of exile and redemption has been translated into Croatian by his longtime translator Božica Jakovlev. This extraordinary feat of creative imagination has received a handful of the world's most important awards in the science fiction and alternative history genres, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards, and has won over a million copies worldwide.
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