The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Michael Chabons Großvater war Setzer und arbeitete in einer New Yorker Firma, in der unter anderem Comic-Hefte gedruckt wurden. Chabon wurde 1963 in Washington DC geboren und wuchs in Columbia, Maryland auf. Seine Arbeiten erschienen im New Yorker, Harper's, GQ, Esquire und Playboy und zahlreichen Anthologien. Michael Chabon lebt heute mit seiner Frau und seinen Kindern in Berkeley.

'His almost ecstatically smart and sassy new novel...Chabon is a spectacular writer...a language magician, turning everything into something else just for the delight of playing tricks with words...Chabon's ornate prose makes (Raymond) Chandler's fruity observations of the world look quite plain...He writes like a dream and has you laughing out loud, applauding the fun he has with language and the way he takes the task of a writer and runs delighted rings around it.' Guardian 'Michael Chabon's brilliant new novel starts with a bang...It hums with humour. It buzzes with gags...Superb images also team in this long novel: the accumulated reading experience is one of admiration, close to awe, at the vigour of Chabon's imagination...a hilarious, antic whirl of a novel.' Sunday Times 'Chabon is masterly at evoking reality through smells and rises to the challenge of differentiating his "black hat" (Orthodox) characters with precise descriptions of beards.' Observer 'This is a master storyteller at work, a stylish noir-esque murder mystery interwoven with pathos, wit, and the grasp of descriptive metaphor that make one swallow hard to keep from shouting with joy. Michael Chabon illuminates and invites discussion while his meticulous plotting and scintillating characters create an alternate world that compels belief...confirms Chabon's status as one of the truly great living American writers.' Waterstones Books Quarterly