The Final Solution: A Story of Detection by Michael Chabon Paperback Book

Details

Rent The Final Solution: A Story of Detection

Author: Michael Chabon

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Harpercollins

Published: Nov 2005

Genre: Fiction - Literary

Retail Price: $15.99

Pages: 144

Synopsis

Deep in the rural English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old beekeeper--and one-time famous detective--becomes involved with nine-year-old Linus Steinman, a young refugee from Nazi Germany whose sole companion, an African grey parrot, spews out a mysterious series of German numbers that could hold the key to a dangerous secret. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

View descriptions at Amazon.com

Recommended

The Guernsey Literary and...
by Mary Ann Shaffer

January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so...

Saturday
by Ian McEwan

Saturday is a novel set within a single day in February 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man — a successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a...

People of the Book
by Geraldine Brooks

The "complex and moving"(The New Yorker) novel by Pulitzer Prize–winner Geraldine Brooks follows a rare manuscript through centuries of...

Light on Snow
by Anita Shreve

A brilliant and beautiful contemporary novel about love and memory from the author of the bestselling novels All He Ever Wanted and The Pilots...

Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen

Jacob Jankowski, 90 years old and living in a nursing home, tells how, orphaned and penniless during the Great Depression, he became an animal trainer...

The Road (Oprah's Book...
by Cormac McCarthy

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing...

Reviews