The Final Solution, Michael Chabon
The Final Solution, Michael Chabon
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The Final Solution
A Story of Detection

Author: Michael Chabon

Narrator: Michael York

Unabridged: 3 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/04/2017

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.

About Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous books, collections of short stories and essays, and a young-adult novel. Titles include Wonder Boys, which was made into a critically acclaimed film; The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize; and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, among others.

About Michael York

Michael York is a successful screen and stage actor. Among his screen credits are Romeo and Juliet, Cabaret, The Three Musketeers, Logan’s Run, and Austin Powers. Stage appearances include Britain’s National Theatre and Broadway. His television work has garnered Emmy nominations and his audio recordings Grammy nominations, as well as five AudioFile Earphones Awards. He has been awarded Britain’s OBE, France’s Arts et Lettres, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Violet on May 07, 2016

In which Michael Chabon resurrects Sherlock Holmes. The Final Solution is set in England in 1944. It begins with an eighty-year old bee keeper who sees a young boy with a parrot on his shoulder walking alongside train tracks. How much menacing power the word train evokes in a 1940s setting is brilli......more

Goodreads review by Fabian on January 08, 2020

Blah. Read this some days ago & the very fact that I did really just pretty casually slipped my mind... Yep. It's that unphenomenal type of lit that was in actuality a contract agreement between lauded Pulitzer Prize winning author and publishing house. Well, yeah. This fulfills its primary duty inde......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on July 14, 2007

I’m downgrading this to a two and am tempted to give it the damning single star but for the fact that Chabon is such a master of cleverness and has such a huge vocabulary I have to admit some sliver of awe and respect. That’s the failing, too, of this book for me. I looked hard and could find no sou......more

Goodreads review by Pete on November 24, 2008

I'm a Michael Chabon fan, and that may be surprising considering I have no special interest in his favorite topics: superheroes, homosexuality, Jewishness, and genre fiction. His novella "The Final Solution" hits three out of four if you consider Sherlock Holmes a superhero (or gay), and I enjoyed t......more

Quotes

“The writing is everything that Chabon’s fans expect—gorgeous, muscular, mildly melancholic.” Baltimore Sun

“Both simple and startling sad…Chabon has created a minor masterpiece.” Hartford Courant

“To be admired for the feeling in its sentences…One of the best-written American novels published this fall.” New York Sun

“The writing here is taut and polished, and Chabon’s characters and depictions of English country life are spot on…[A] haunting novella.” Publishers Weekly

Awards

  • National Jewish Book Award
  • San Francisco Chronicle Best Book
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