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Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or. Michael chabons new novel is a brilliantly written fantasy with a notquitefatal flaw at its heart. The novel is a detective story set in an alternative history version of the present day, based on the premise that during world war ii, a temporary settlement for jewish refugees was established in sitka, alaska, in 1941, and that the fledgling state of israel was destroyed in 1948. Bound only by the endless confines of chabons mind, the author rewrites history to.
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