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I recommend the book to all chabon fans and to the adventurous among readers of current american fiction. Jun 02, 2017 an interview with michael chabon and ayelet waldman about confronting the occupation. Michael chabons adventures of kavalier and clay series. He grew up in columbia, maryland where his parents worked and later after the parents divorced, he was raised up by his mother after his father moved to pittsburgh. Michael chabon is the awardwinning novelist behind the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay, the yiddish policemens union, the final solution, the mysteries of pittsburgh, wonder boys, and telegraph avenue, in addition to two short story collections, a ya novel, and, with dark horse comics, the amazing adventures of the escapist. Chabon, starting with himself as writers should, seems determined in the yiddish policemens union to stave off wistfulness by any means, even if it requires him to turn the story of the. He tells stuart jeffries about the fun he had writing it, jewishness and why good looks mean nothing. Scott fitzgerald, jorge luis borges and philip roth. The brilliantly original new novel from michael chabon, author of the pulitzer prizewinning the adventures of kavalier and clay 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 revelations of the holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of israel. His alternate history novel, the yiddish policemens union, won the hugo, nebula, and sidewise awards. As a jew and someone who has felt connected both to israel and also to the old testament narratives, it actually does mean something to me to be in hebron, to be where supposedly. His next novel is telegraph avenue, due out in september.
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