The latest from the Pulitzer-winning novelist is a “murder-mystery speculative-history Jewish-identity noir chess thriller,” in the words of Publishers Weekly. It’s a private-eye story set in a fictional community of Jewish exiles — “the frozen chosen” — displaced to a temporary settlement in Alaska by World War II.
He appears in Chicago for a NextBook program on May 21.
Michael Chabon
May 21, 6:30 PM
Harold Washington Library Center
One of America’s most celebrated novelists, Michael Chabon is also an original and adventurous chronicler of modern Jewish life. In 2001, Chabon received the Pulitzer Prize for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, the story of two Jewish cousins who together create comic books about a superhero called the Escapist. In his novella The Final Solution, Chabon tells the story of a nine-year-old refugee in wartime London, who teams up with an aging detective to solve a murder. And in his new novel, The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, to be published in May 2007, he imagines what might have been if Franklin D. Roosevelt had followed through with his proposal to create a Jewish homeland in Alaska. Chabon’s other books include The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, and Summerland. He has also written the screenplays for Kavalier & Clay and Spider-Man 2. Read more at Nextbook or listen to their fabulous podcast:
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