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Interesting little tale with a fitting play on words, considering the setting of World War II London.

This somewhat recent—and short—offering from one of this generation’s finest was tightly spun. But as Chabon himself said in current interviews about THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN’S UNION, he tends to overwrite. At 113 pages or so, I can imagine this book would have been shorter with a more relentless swipe at the prose.

I still enjoyed this little book. A lot.

I can’t wait to read TYPU.

a very nice, short read. I love the older detective stories, Sherlock Holmes and the like, and this was an interesting angle on the genre.

Fascinating tale based on a retired Sherlock Holmes character and a Jewish refugee child with a puzzling parrot who recites only sequences of numbers. Unlike a Conan Doyle tale, the mystery is not tied up in a neat bow at the conclusion of the novel. Some horrors cannot be deduced from the facts uncovered and extrapolations of their meanings.