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Synopsis
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.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?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.
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"Infused with a graceful, elegiac atmosphere.wrought with innovative construction, glittering with epiphany.remarkable." -- Buffalo News
"Exuberant.the real mystery is how Chabon managed to fit so much hope and humanity into such a brief tale." -- BookPage
"Chabon's writing here is elegant and limber.[The Final Solution] is a little mystery story with big ideas." -- San Francisco Chronicle (Best Books of 2004)
"Packed with gorgeous writing.a knockout. You'll be done before you know it. Then you might well read it again." -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"A knockout.you'll be done before you know it. Then you might well read it again." -- Denver Post
"A profound pleasure." -- New York magazine
"Simple and startlingly sad.Chabon has created a minor masterpiece." -- Hartford Courant
"Delightful.and deceptively profound...Chabon shows his greatness." -- Louisville Courier Journal
"A haunting novella." -- Publishers Weekly
"Brilliant and unswervingly entertaining." -- The Forward
About the Author
Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Moonglow and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, among many others. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife, the novelist Ayelet Waldman, and their children.
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- PublisherChivers Sound Library
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0792734351
- ISBN 13 9780792734352
- BindingAudio Cassette
- LanguageEnglish
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