From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the international bestsellers The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and Moonlight, “an alternate history of an independent Jewish state: instead of Palestine, it appears in Alaska. They speak Yiddish there, occasionally have skirmishes with their Indian neighbors, and are waiting for the end of the 60-year period imposed by the United States for the resettlement of Jews who fled from the Nazis during World War II from Europe” (Lenta.ru). And so, against the backdrop of general apocalyptic expectations, a completely ordinary murder occurs: in the cheap hotel Zamenhof, named after the inventor of the Esperanto language, the body of a degenerate but once brilliant chess player is found. Meyer Landsman, a detective from Team B of the Sitka Police Department's Homicide Division, takes over the investigation. The entire district has only a few months of normal life left, and then the unknown, but Landsman in his quest for the truth will not be stopped either by the obstacles put in place by his own superiors, or by messianic organized crime, or by the machinations of the FBI, or by the return to Sitka of Landsman’s former wife, who managed to graduate advanced training courses for female detectives...The novel is published in a new translation.

The book contains profanity