The Final Solution - by Michael Chabon (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A mute boy escapes Nazi Germany with an African grey parrot and wanders into the live of an 89-year-old man rumored to be a once-famous detective. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of numbers the bird spews out, and is the answer beyond the reach of the famed sleuth?<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>In <em>The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay</em>, prose magician Michael Chabon conjured the golden age of comic books, interwining history, legend and story-telling verve. In <em>The Final Solution</em>, he has condensed his boundless vision to create a short, suspenseful tale of compassion and wit that re-imagines the classic 19th-century detective story.</strong></p><p>In deep retirement in the English countryside, an 89-year old man, vaguely recollected by the locals as a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his bookkeeping than 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 grey 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 at once more prosaic and far more sinister?</p><p>Though the solution to this last case may be beyond even the reach of the once famed sleuth, the true story of the boy and his parrot is subtly revealed to the reader in a wrenching resolution to this brilliant homage. <em>The Final Solution</em> is a work from a master story-teller at the height of his powers.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>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.</p><p>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?</p><p>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Chabon writes with plummy luxury . . . the language is luscious enough to lap up."--<em>Washington Post</em><br><br>"Chabon's fans will eagerly clue in on a fine new quality in his nimble voice-something firm, rich, and anything but child's play."--<em>Entertainment Weekly</em><br><br>"Deftly composed...the slender but elegant narrative begins churning on its way...seating us around a rooming-house dinner table of a Sunday with a full cast of secondary characters...it's a method that dovetails beautifully...[The Final Solution] is a lovingly constructed tribute to a form."--<em>Chicago Tribune </em><br><br>"At once an ingenious, fully imagined work, an expert piece of literary ventriloquism, and a mash note to the beloved boys' tales of Chabon's youth, The Final Solution is a major minor work that will come to be seen as a hinge piece in the development of Chabon's art...A prose magician, Chabon is that rare literary anomaly: a gentle-spirited writer of boundless ambition.--Village Voice<br><br>"On par with the best, most tightly written sections of Chabon's last novel, the marvelous The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay...exceptional."--<em>New York Times Book Review</em><br><br>"The tough, fibrous membrane that used to separate literary fiction from popular fiction is rupturing. The highbrow and the lowbrow, once kept chastely separate, are now hooking up, which is why we have great, funky, unclassifiable writers like Chabon...this is literature in mid-transformation, the modernist bleeding into the postmodern and beyond."--Time magazine<br><br>"A profound pleasure."--New York magazine<br><br>"Delightful...and deceptively profound...Chabon shows his greatness."--Louisville Courier Journal<br><br>"One of the best-written American novels published this fall . . . an experiment by a master."--The New York Sun<br><br>"Simple and startlingly sad...Chabon has created a minor masterpiece."--Hartford Courant<br>
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