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Cosa sarebbe successo se, come aveva proposto Roosevelt, l'Alaska, e non Israele, fosse diventata dopo il 1945 la patria degli ebrei? Nell"'Alyeska" di Michael Chabon si parla yiddish e l'agente Meyer Landsman si imbatte nel cadavere di un campione di scacchi eroinomane. Mentre nelle strade di Sitka, la capitale, si sfidano gangster ortodossi e rabbini in attesa di un Messia che riporti il popolo eletto a Gerusalemme, Landsman deve risolvere il caso con l'aiuto di un cugino metà ebreo e metà eschimese e del suo capo, nonché ex moglie.
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- Pagine: 398
- Data di uscita: 03-09-2014
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"I don't care what is written," Meyer Landsman says. "I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son's throat for the sake of a hare-brained idea. I don't care about red heifers and patriarchs and locusts. A bunch of Leggi tutto
This would make my short list for the most overwritten novel I’ve ever read. It’s Michael Chabon so of course there are some fabulous lines. But at times I felt like I was reading Thomas Pynchon or Nabokov fan fiction. Several times I was on the point of abandoning it but annoyingly Chabon would sud Leggi tutto
An alternative history novel with a dark setting, a language one could endlessly use for interpretation, to debate about, and a monument of not giving up while protecting oneself with cynicism and Jewish humor at its best. Unique style some may find too heavy and exhausting to read The language is am Leggi tutto
My father's family is Polish-Jewish. My paternal grandmother was fluent in Yiddish, and whenever I see my parents they talk incessantly about Israeli politics. I must have read at least half of Isaac Bashevis Singer at one time or another. Also, I'm a chess player. I even knew the chess problem in q Leggi tutto
Many years ago, after I'd finished off The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay , one of my all-time favourites, I decided to follow up on my personal Chabon binge with The Yiddish Policeman's Union . For one reason or another, I made it about 50 pages deep and abandoned the entire book. I sat it nex Leggi tutto
When I first heard about this novel, I found its premise too fascinating to resist: it's a noir-inspired murder mystery set in an alternate universe in which refugees from the failed state of Israel are living in a section of Alaska temporarily loaned to them by the US government. At the beginning o Leggi tutto
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