Genre: Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
Recommended By: jonny.gotham
Rating: 7/10
Genre: Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
Recommended By: jonny.gotham
Rating: 8/10
Another book by Michael Chabon, this detective story is set in an alternate history during which, in World War II, a temporary township is established in Sitka, Alaska to accept Jewish refugees, with the State of Israel being destroyed in 1948. Following Detective Meyer Landsman, the tale brings the reader through a classic whodunnit story investigating the murder of a man called Emmanuel Lasker during the last weeks of his official employ by Sitka Police before reversion to American control.
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Genre: Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
Recommended By: jonny.gotham
Rating: 9/10
One of my favorite books of all–time from one of my favorite writers of all– time, Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay follows the coming–of–age and coming–to–America story of Joseph Kavalier, a young Jewish boy that escapes a Nazi–ravaged Europe to live with aunt and cousin, Samuel Klayman in New York City. Thus starts an adventure tale with love, loss, Golems, and more…
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