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The Final Solution: A Story of Detection (Paperback)

By Michael Chabon
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Description

Retired to the English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old man, rumored to be a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African gray parrot.

What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out -- a top-secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank accounts? Or do they hold a significance both more prosaic and far more sinister?

Though the solution may be beyond even the reach of the once-famous sleuth, the true story of the boy and his parrot is subtly revealed in a wrenching resolution.

About the Author

Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Summerland (a novel for children), The Final Solution, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, and Gentlemen of the Road; as well as the short story collections A Model World and Werewolves in Their Youth; and the essay collections Maps and Legends and Manhood for Amateurs. He is the Chairman of the Board of the MacDowell Colony. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, the novelist Ayelet Waldman, and their children.

Praise for The Final Solution: A Story of Detection…

“One of the best-written American novels published this fall . . . an experiment by a master.”
-The New York Sun

“A profound pleasure.”
-New York magazine

“Delightful…and deceptively profound...Chabon shows his greatness.”
-Louisville Courier Journal

“Simple and startlingly sad…Chabon has created a minor masterpiece.”
-Hartford Courant

“A haunting novella.”
-Publishers Weekly

“Brilliant and unswervingly entertaining.”
-The Forward

“The writing is everything that Chabon’s fans expect--gorgeous, muscular, mildly melancholic…wonderfully executed.”
-Baltimore Sun

“Packed with gorgeous writing…a knockout. You’ll be done before you know it. Then you might well read it again.”
-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

“Michael Chabon, is, simply, the coolest writer in America.”
-Christian Science Monitor

“Chabon’s writing here is elegant and limber…[The Final Solution] is a little mystery story with big ideas.”
-San Francisco Chronicle (Best Books of 2004)

“A knockout…you’ll be done before you know it. Then you might well read it again.”
-Denver Post

“Watching Chabon skillfully zigzag between literary and genre is half the fun of the book…refreshing.”
-Miami Herald

“Exuberant…the real mystery is how Chabon managed to fit so much hope and humanity into such a brief tale.”
-BookPage

“Infused with a graceful, elegiac atmosphere…wrought with innovative construction, glittering with epiphany…remarkable.”
-Buffalo News

Product Details ISBN-10: 0060777109
ISBN-13: 9780060777104
Published: Harper Perennial, 11/01/2005
Pages: 160
Language: English
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