he New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback—“an excellent, hyperliterate, genre-pantsing detective novel that deserves every inch of its…blockbuster superfame” (New York). 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.

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Manhood for Amateurs and Moonglow, returns with a collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on the meaning of fatherhood. You are born into a family and those are your people, and they know you and they love you and if you are lucky they even, on occasion, manage to understand you. And that ought to be enough. But it is never enough What are you allowed to talk about with your children? When to step in with advice, when to let them make their own mistakes? It’s more complicated than you think. Somehow you muddle through. In this heartfelt, humorous and wise book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon attempts to weigh in on difficult conversations with his children, on everything from texting girls to death. But it is when he hangs back that he catches them transforming into their own people. What emerges is a father’s deep respect for his children’s passions and for their bravery in the face of conformity. Whether you know the joy and struggles of being a father, or were shaped by one, you will find a home in these stunning essays.

Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces

A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and afterwords (plus some liner notes) by New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon—“one of contemporary literature’s most gifted prose stylists” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times). In Bookends, Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon offers a compilation of pieces about literature—age-old classics as well as his own—that presents a unique look into his literary origins and influences, the books that shaped his taste and formed his ideas about writing and reading. Chabon asks why anyone would write an introduction, or for that matter, read one. His own daughter Rose prefers to skip them. Chabon's answer is simple and simultaneously profound: ""a hope of bringing pleasure for the reader."" Likewise, afterwords—they are all about shared pleasure, about the ""pure love"" of a work of art that has inspired, awakened, transformed the reader. Ultimately, this thought-provoking compendium is a series of love letters and thank-you notes, unified by the simple theme of the shared pleasure of discovery, whether it's the boyhood revelation of the most important story in Chabon's life (Ray Bradbury's ""The Rocket Man""); a celebration of ""the greatest literary cartographer of the planet Mars"" (Edgar Rice Burroughs, with his character John Carter); a reintroduction to a forgotten master of ghost stories (M. R. James, ironically ""the happiest of men""); the recognition that the worlds of Wes Anderson's films are reassembled scale models of our own broken reality (as is all art); Chabon's own rude awakening from the muse as he writes his debut novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh; or a playful parody of lyrical interpretation in the liner notes for Mark Ronson's Uptown Special, the true purpose of which, Chabon insists, is to ""spread the gospel of sensible automotive safety and maintenance practices."" Galaxies away from academic or didactic, Bookends celebrates wonder—and like the copy of The Phantom Tollbooth handed to young Michael by a friend of his father he never saw again—it is a treasured gift.

Bookends

Awesome Man can shoot positronic rays out of his eyeballs, fly as straight asan arrow, and hug mutant Jell-O! Even villains like Professor Von Evil and the Flaming Eyeball are no match for this caped crusader. But Awesome Man also has a secret. . . . Can you guess what it is? The first picture book from Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon perfectly captures the fantasy life of young superhero fans.

The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man

“Magical prose stylist” Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) delivers a collection of essays—heartfelt, humorous, insightful, wise—on the meaning of fatherhood. For the September 2016 issue of GQ, Michael Chabon wrote a piece about accompanying his son Abraham Chabon, then thirteen, to Paris Men’s Fashion Week. Possessed with a precocious sense of style, Abe was in his element chatting with designers he idolized and turning a critical eye to the freshest runway looks of the season; Chabon Sr., whose interest in clothing stops at “thrift-shopping for vintage western shirts or Hermès neckties,” sat idly by, staving off yawns and fighting the impulse that the whole thing was a massive waste of time. Despite his own indifference, however, what gradually emerged as Chabon ferried his son to and from fashion shows was a deep respect for his son’s passion. The piece quickly became a viral sensation. With the GQ story as its centerpiece, and featuring six additional essays plus an introduction, Pops illuminates the meaning, magic, and mysteries of fatherhood as only Michael Chabon can.

Pops

“Chabon has always been a magical prose stylist, adept at combining the sort of social and emotional detail found in Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus stories with the metaphor-rich descriptions of John Updike and John Irving’s inventive sleight of hand. . . . As in his novels, he shifts gears easily between the comic and the melancholy, the whimsical and the serious, demonstrating once again his ability to write about the big subjects of love and memory and regret without falling prey to the Scylla and Charybdis of cynicism and sentimentality.” — Michiko Kakutani, New York Times “Wondrous, wise and beautiful.” — David Kamp, New York Times Book Review The bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Werewolves in Their Youth, Wonderboys, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union Michael Chabon “takes [his] brutally observant, unfailingly honest, marvelously human gaze and turns it on his own life” (Time) in the New York Times bestselling memoir Manhood for Amateurs.

Manhood for Amateurs

Awesome Man, our favorite superhero, is back, and in this fantastic sequel from New York Times bestselling author Michael Chabon, he must prepare for his greatest threat yet! Awesome Man’s secret identity has stayed safe, and he’s still the coolest superhero around. He loves protecting the people of Awesome City from evildoers, like the giant Plutonian octolizard, with his trusty sidekick, Moskowitz. But there have been reports that a new hero is coming to town soon. What if the people of Awesome City no longer need Awesome Man? Narrated by the author, this audiobook is a great gift for the superhero-obsessed and any kid adjusting to life with a new sibling!

Awesome Man: The Mystery Intruder

New York Times Bestseller “A genuinely moving story about race and class, parenting and marriage. . . Chabon is inarguably one of the greatest prose stylists of all time."" — Benjamin Percy, Esquire New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon has transported readers to wonderful places: to New York City during the Golden Age of comic books (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay); to an imaginary Jewish homeland in Sitka, Alaska (The Yiddish Policemen’s Union); to discover The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Now he takes us to Telegraph Avenue in a big-hearted and exhilarating novel that explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland, California families, one black and one white. In Telegraph Avenue, Chabon lovingly creates a world grounded in pop culture—Kung Fu, ’70s Blaxploitation films, vinyl LPs, jazz and soul music—and delivers a bravura epic of friendship, race, and secret histories. As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there—longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, a pair of semi-legendary midwives who have welcomed more than a thousand newly minted citizens into the dented utopia at whose heart—half tavern, half temple—stands Brokeland. When ex–NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fifth-richest black man in America, announces plans to build his latest Dogpile megastore on a nearby stretch of Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy fear it means certain doom for their vulnerable little enterprise. Meanwhile, Aviva and Gwen also find themselves caught up in a battle for their professional existence, one that tests the limits of their friendship. Adding another layer of complications to the couples' already tangled lives is the surprise appearance of Titus Joyner, the teenage son Archy has never acknowledged and the love of fifteen-year-old Julius Jaffe's life.

Telegraph Avenue

From the Pulitzer Prize winning Michael Chabon comes this bestselling novel for readers of all ages that blends fantasy and folklore with that most American coming-of-age ritual: baseball—now in a new edition, with an original introduction by the author. Ethan Feld is having a terrible summer: his father has moved them to Clam Island, Washington, where Ethan has quickly established himself as the least gifted baseball player the island has ever seen. Ethan’s luck begins to change, however, when a mysterious baseball scout named Ringfinger Brown and a seven-hundred-and-sixty-five-year-old werefox enter his life, dragging Ethan into another world called the Summerlands. But this beautiful, winter-less place is facing destruction at the hands of the villainous Coyote, and it has been prophesized that only Ethan can save it. In this cherished modern classic, the New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize winning author brings his masterful storytelling, dexterous plotting, and singularly envisioned characters to a coming-of-age novel for readers of all ages.

Summerland

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Telegraph Book of the Year • A New York Times Notable Book of the Year • A Washington Post Book of the Year • A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year • A Slate Book of the Year ‘Probably Chabon’s greatest, a piece of sustained writing that will be hard to see outdone in 2017’ The Times ‘Entirely sure footed, propulsive, the work of a master at his very best. The brilliance of Moonglow stands as a strident defence of the form itself, a bravura demonstration of the endless mutability and versatility of the novel’ Observer ‘The world, like the Tower of Babel or my grandmother’s deck of cards, was made out of stories, and it was always on the verge of collapse.’ Moonglow unfolds as a deathbed confession. An old man, his tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, his memory stirred by the imminence of death, tells stories to his grandson, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried. Why did he try to strangle a former business partner with a telephone cord? What was he thinking when he and a buddy set explosives on a bridge in Washington, D.C.? What did he feel while he hunted down Wernher von Braun in Germany? And what did he see in the young girl he met in Baltimore after returning home from the war? From the Jewish slums of pre-war Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of a New York prison, from the heyday of the space programme to the twilight of ‘the American Century’, Moonglow collapses an era into a single life and a lifetime into a single week.

Moonglow

Mens sommeren 2004 nærmer sig sin afslutning, holder Archy Stallings og Nat Jaffe stadig skansen – de har været venner i mange år, spiller i samme band og regerer i fælleskab over Brokeland Records, et kongerige af brugt vinyl som ligger i udkanten af Berkeley og Oakland i Californien. Deres koner, Gwen Shanks og Aviva Roth-Jaffe, udgør Berkeley Birth Partners og er legendariske jordemødre i lokalområdet. De har budt mere end tusind nyslåede indbyggere velkommen til det skrammede, bulede Utopia i hvis hjerte – halvt krostue, halvt tempel – navnet Brokeland står præget. Da den tidligere NFL-quarterback Gibson Goode, den femte-rigeste sorte mand i Amerika, offentliggør sine planer om at bygge sin seneste Dogpile Megastore lidt længere nede ad gaden Telegraph Avenue, frygter Nat og Archy at det vil føre til undergang for deres sårbare lille pladeforretning. I mellemtiden befinder Aviva og Gwen sig også midt i en kamp for deres professionelle overlevelse, en kamp der sætter rækkevidden af deres venskab på prøve. Ægteparrenes allerede indviklede tilværelser kompliceres yderligere af Titus Joyners overraskende ankomst. Titus er den teenage-søn som Archy aldrig har vedkendt sig, og bliver den store kærlighed i den 15-årige Julius Jaffes liv. Telegraph Avenue er en personlig, episk fortælling, en nordcalifornisk Middlemarch som klinger i takt med den funky hjerterytme i klassisk soul-jazz på vinyl og pulserer med en virtuos, fyrværkeri-agtig, helt særegen stil. Bogen er den store amerikanske roman vi har ventet på. Generøs, fantasifuld, morsom, rørende, spændende, menneskelig og triumferende – Michael Chabons mest blændende bog til dato. Michael Chabon er forfatteren bag bl.a. Pittsburgh-mysterierne, Wonder Boys, Den utrolige historie om Kavalier & Clay og Det jiddische politiforbund. Han bor i Berkeley, Californien, med sin kone, forfatteren Ayelet Waldman, og deres børn. For Den utrolige historie om Kavalier & Clay modtog Chabon Pulitzer-prisen i 2001.

Den Pulitzer-prisvindende forfatter Michael Chabon er forfatteren bag bl.a. Pittsburgh-mysterierne, Den utrolige historie om Kavalier & Clay, Det jiddische politiforbund og Telegraph Avenue. Han bor i Berkeley, Californien, med sin kone, forfatteren Ayelet Waldman, og deres børn. For Den utrolige historie om Kavalier & Clay modtog Chabon Pulitzer-prisen i 2001. Grady Tripp er en aldrende, vommet, hashrygende og sexgal forfatter, der er i krise over at skulle færdiggøre den længe ventede opfølger til sin prisvindende roman. Han underviser spirende forfattere på universitetet i Pittsburgh, mens han kæmper med sit 2000 sider lange manuskript, Wonderboys. Terry Crabtree er Grady Tripps bizarre og overstrømmende redaktør, der ikke kan dy sig for at aflægge Tripp et rykkervisit. Hans besøg indleder en kaotisk weekend, der udvikler sig til en odyssé, hvor vi blandt andet møder Gradys brilliante studerende, hans gravide elskerinde, hans hustru og en smuk logerende. Men også en tuba, en død hund og Marilyn Monroes jakke spiller afgørende roller. Resultatet er en hysterisk morsom og intens jagt efter fortidens løfter, fremtidig berømmelse og meningen med Gradys liv.

Wonderboys

Terwijl de zomer van 2004 op zijn einde loopt proberen zakenpartners en beste vrienden Archy Stallings en Nat Jaffe hun platenzaak van de ondergang te redden. Brokeland Records op Telegraph Avenue in Californië is het laatste bastion tegen alles wat naar vooruitgang riekt er wordt alleen vinyl verkocht en espressomachines komen er niet in. De toonbank is een verzamelplaats en hangplek voor de buurtbewoners. Ondertussen hebben echtgenotes Gwen Shanks en Aviva Roth-Jaffe het druk met hun vroedvrouwenpraktijk en vechten ze tegen de vooroordelen die heersen; nee, ze beoefenen écht geen voodoo. Gwen verwacht zelf haar eerste kindje, maar komt erachter dat haar man Archy er een affaire op nahoudt. Aviva en Nat proberen hun puberzoon Julie in het gareel te houden, maar moeten lijdzaam toezien dat hij de beste vriend wordt van Titus, een zonderlinge jongen. Dan opent een megastore zijn deuren en dreigt Brokeland Records van de kaart te worden geveegd. De onderlinge verhoudingen komen erdoor op scherp te staan en allemaal moeten ze kiezen: jeugddromen blijven najagen of volwassen worden. Met Telegraph Avenue heeft Michael Chabon een great American novel geschreven over liefde, vriendschap en muziek, boordevol nostalgie. Hij bewijst hiermee opnieuw een van de beste hedendaagse Amerikaanse schrijvers te zijn.

Telegraph avenue

Romaani, muistelma vai silkkaa sumutusta? Michael Chabon käy tarun ja toden rajaa huimaavan hienossa Kuunkajossa. Kertojan isoisä on kuolinvuoteellaan, kun menneisyys alkaa purkautua hämmästyneenä kuuntelevan lapsenlapsen (nimeltään Mike Chabon) korviin. Tarina polveilee sotienvälisen ajan amerikanjuutalaisista natsi-Saksan häviöön, newyorkilaisesta vankilasta Floridan eläkeläisiin, avaruuden valloituksesta Amerikan loiston himmenemiseen. Kuunkajo valehtelee sujuvasti totuudesta, kertoo yhden miehen elämäntarinan sellaisena kuin muistot ovat: repaleita, aukkoja, hyviä tarinoita jotka muuttuvat tosiksi, totuuksia joita kukaan ei usko. Kuunkajo on Chabonin taidonnäyte, romaani aikakaudesta, joka versoi sodan varjosta."Kuunkajossa Michael Chabon on uskaliaimmillaan, liikuttavimmillaan, omimmillaan." - The Guardian Michael Chabon (s. 1963) kuuluu amerikkalaisen nykykirjallisuuden kärkinimiin. Chabonin teos The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay voitti Pulitzer-palkinnon 2001, Wonder Boys -romaanista tehtiin elokuva. Chabon asuu Kalifornian Berkeleyssä vaimonsa ja lastensa kanssa. Sokkotreffeiltä löytynyt puoliso Ayelet Waldman on myös kirjailija. Lapsena musiikki- ja sarjakuvafanaatikko Chabon haaveili muuttavansa Walt Disney Worldiin.

Kuunkajo

Die Vereinigung jiddischer Polizisten Detektiv Meyer Landsman vom Morddezernat hat Probleme. Seine Ehe ist am Ende, er trinkt und steckt auch beruflich in einer Sackgasse: Nicht mal die Hälfte der Fälle ist gelöst. Sein neuer Chef ist seine Exfrau, und in dem billigen Hotel, in dem er wohnt, wurde ein Mord begangen. Landsman beginnt mit seinen Untersuchungen aus bloßer Routine und mit dem Gefühl, dass er dadurch vielleicht noch etwas gutmachen kann. Doch als von ganz oben die Anweisung ergeht, dass der Fall sofort zu den Akten gelegt werden soll, ermittelt Landsman mit seinem Partner auf eigene Faust und gerät tief in eine Welt, in der politische Ziele und religiöser Wahn eine gefährliche Allianz eingehen.

Die Vereinigung jiddischer Polizisten

Ein Abenteuerroman in klassischem Gewand und doch ein echter Chabon Michael Chabon taucht in diesem Abenteuerroman klassischer Provenienz tief ein in die Kaukasusregion des 10. Jahrhunderts und schafft mit Zelikman und Amram zwei liebenswerte, lebenskluge Schurken, die dem Sohn des ermordeten Königs helfen sollen, den rechtmäßigen Nachfolger auf den Thron zu bringen.Sie sind ein seltsames Paar – der blasse, spinnenbeinige Zelikman, ein wortkarger fränkischer Jude auf Wanderschaft, sowie Amram, der afrikanisch-jüdische Riese, dessen scharfe Zunge ähnlich verletzen kann wie seine Streitaxt. Brüder im Geiste und Kameraden, so ziehen sie um das Jahr 950 durch die kaukasischen Berge und tun das, wonach ihnen gerade ist. Auftragsdiebstahl, Trickbetrügerei oder sonstige Übeltaten – dem ungleichen Paar scheint nichts fremd. Gleichwohl kommen sie an ihre Grenzen, als sie gezwungen werden, Eskorte und Aufpasser des Prinzen der Chasaren zu werden. Sein Vater, der Bek, wurde von seinem brutalen Bruder vom Thron gestoßen, und der unreife, übellaunige Junge will nur eins: Seinen Vater rächen und den rechtmäßigen Thronfolger auf seinem Platz sehen. Helfen könnte der Kagan, das gottgleiche Oberhaupt, der auf einer Insel der Wolga lebt und nie einen Untertan zu Gesicht bekommt. Oder soll eine Armee gegen den Usurpator zu Felde ziehen? Voll Spannung verfolgt man die Handlung rund um Zelikman und Amram und bewundert Chabons Kenntnisreichtum, Humor, Fantasie und Sprachgewalt. »Es ist schwer, der gesammelten Wucht dieses Romans zu widerstehen, ganz zu schweigen von dem Vergnügen, das Chabons Sprache bereitet.« New York Times Book Review

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