Books by Michael Chabon

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A Telegraph Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book of the Year * A Washington Post Book of the Year * A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year * A Slate Book of the Year'Probably Chabon's greatest, a piece of sustained writing that will be hard to see outdone in 2017' The Times'Entirely sure footed, propulsive, the work of a master at his very best. The brilliance of Moonglow stands as a strident defence of the form itself, a bravura demonstration of the endless mutability and versatility of the novel' Observer'The world, like the Tower of Babel or my grandmother's deck of cards, was made out of stories, and it was always on the verge of collapse.'Moonglow unfolds as a deathbed confession. An old man, his tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, his memory stirred by the imminence of death, tells stories to his grandson, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried. Why did he try to strangle a former business partner with a telephone cord? What was he thinking when he and a buddy set explosives on a bridge in Washington, D.C.? What did he feel while he hunted down Wernher von Braun in Germany? And what did he see in the young girl he met in Baltimore after returning home from the war?From the Jewish slums of pre-war Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of a New York prison, from the heyday of the space programme to the twilight of 'the American Century', Moonglow collapses an era into a single life and a lifetime into a single week.

Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY is a heart-wrenching story of escape, love and comic-book heroes set in Prague, New York and the Arctic.One night in 1939, Josef Kavalier shuffles into his cousin Sam Clay's cramped New York bedroom, his nerve-racking escape from Prague finally achieved. Little does he realise that this is the beginning of an extraordinary friendship and even more fruitful business partnership. Together, they create a comic strip called 'The Escapist', its superhero a Nazi-busting saviour who liberates the oppressed around the world. 'The Escapist' makes their fortune, but Joe can think of only one thing: how can he effect a real-life escape and free his family from the tyranny of Hitler?Michael Chabon's exceptional novel is a thrilling tightrope walk between high comedy and bitter tragedy. In Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay he has created two unforgettable characters bound together by love, family and cartoons.

A deft parody of the American fame factory and a piercing portrait of young and old desire, WONDER BOYS is a modern classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY.Grady Tripp is an over-sexed, pot-bellied, pot-smoking, ageing wunderkind of a novelist now teaching creative writing at a Pittsburgh college while working on his 2,000-page masterpiece, WONDER BOYS. When his rumbustious editor and friend, Terry Crabtree, arrives in town, a chaotic weekend follows - involving a tuba, a dead dog, Marilyn Monroe's ermine-lined jacket and a squashed boa constrictor.A novel of elegant imagination, bold humour and undeniable warmth, WONDER BOYS firmly established Michael Chabon as a force to be reckoned with in American fiction.

A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and afterwords (plus some liner notes) by New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon??one of contemporary literature's most gifted prose stylists? (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times).In Bookends, Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon offers a compilation of pieces about literature?age-old classics as well as his own?that presents a unique look into his literary origins and influences, the books that shaped his taste and formed his ideas about writing and reading. Chabon asks why anyone would write an introduction, or for that matter, read one. His own daughter Rose prefers to skip them. Chabon's answer is simple and simultaneously profound: "a hope of bringing pleasure for the reader." Likewise, afterwords?they are all about shared pleasure, about the "pure love" of a work of art that has inspired, awakened, transformed the reader. Ultimately, this thought-provoking compendium is a series of love letters and thank-you notes, unified by the simple theme of the shared pleasure of discovery, whether it's the boyhood revelation of the most important story in Chabon's life (Ray Bradbury's "The Rocket Man"); a celebration of "the greatest literary cartographer of the planet Mars" (Edgar Rice Burroughs, with his character John Carter); a reintroduction to a forgotten master of ghost stories (M. R. James, ironically "the happiest of men"); the recognition that the worlds of Wes Anderson's films are reassembled scale models of our own broken reality (as is all art); Chabon's own rude awakening from the muse as he writes his debut novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh; or a playful parody of lyrical interpretation in the liner notes for Mark Ronson's Uptown Special, the true purpose of which, Chabon insists, is to "spread the gospel of sensible automotive safety and maintenance practices." Galaxies away from academic or didactic, Bookends celebrates wonder?and like the copy of The Phantom Tollbooth handed to young Michael by a friend of his father he never saw again?it is a treasured gift.

The sheltered son of a Jewish mobster, Art Bechstein leaps into his first summer as a college graduate as cluelessly as he capered through his school years. But new friends and lovers are eager to guide him through these sultry days of last-ditch youthful alienation and sexual confusion--in a blue-collar city where the mundane can sometimes appear almost magical.

Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Manhood for Amateurs and Moonglow, returns with a collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on the meaning of fatherhood.

The author of Wonder Boys returns with a powerful and wonderfully written collection of stories, Werewolves in Their Youth. Caught at moments of change, Chabon's men and women, children and husbands and wives, all face small but momentous decisions. They are caught in events that will crystallize and define their lives forever, and with each, Michael Chabon brings his unique vision and uncanny understanding of our deepest mysteries and our greatest fears.

Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, Dave Eggers, Madeleine Thien, Eimear McBride, Taiye Selasi and editors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman.

In the Caucasus Mountains around AD 950, two wandering adventurers and unlikely soul mates live as they please and survive as they can as blades and thieves for hire and practised bamboozlers. Until, following a bloody coup in the Jewish empire of the Khazars, they get dragooned into the service of a fugitive prince, who burns to reclaim his throne . . .Summoning the spirit of The Arabian Nights and The Three Musketeers, this is a novel brimming with action, raucous humour, cliff-hanging suspense, and a cast of colourful characters worthy of Scheherazade's most tantalising tales.

Set in the Jewish homeland of ... Alaska, this is a brilliantly original novel from Michael Chabon, author of THE ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY and WONDER BOYS.What if, as Franklin Roosevelt once proposed, Alaska - and not Israel - had become the homeland for the Jews after the Second World War? In Michael Chabon's Yiddish-speaking 'Alyeska', Orthodox gangs in side-curls and knee breeches roam the streets of Sitka, where Detective Meyer Landsman discovers the corpse of a heroin-addled chess prodigy in the flophouse Meyer calls home. Marionette strings stretch back to the hands of charismatic Rebbe Gold, leader of a sect that seems to have drawn its mission statement from the Cosa Nostra. Meyer is determined to unsnarl the meaning behind the murder. Even if that means surrendering his badge and his dignity to the chief of Sitka's homicide unit - his fearsome ex-wife Bina.A novel of colossal ambition and heart, THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION interweaves a homage to the stylish menace of 1940s film noir with a bittersweet fable of identity, home and faith.

The first novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY

A brilliant reworking of the detective story by the much-acclaimed Michael Chabon, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY.In the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay', Michael Chabon conjured up the golden age of comic books, intertwining history, legend and storytelling verve. In 'The Final Solution' he has crafted a short, suspenseful tale of compassion and wit that reimagines the classic 19th-century detective story.In deep retirement in the English countryside, an 89-year-old man, vaguely remembered by locals as a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than with other people. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African grey 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 perhaps? Or something more sinister? Is the solution to this last case - the real explanation of the mysterious boy and his parrot - beyond even the reach of the once-famed sleuth?Subtle revelations lead the reader to a wrenching resolution. This brilliant homage is the work of a master storyteller at the height of his powers.

af den Pulitzer-prisvindende forfatter Michael Chabon.”Chabons naturlige, overdådige og ekstravagante skrivestil er parret med blændende vid” Sunday TelegraphGrady Tripp er en aldrende, vommet, hashrygende og sexgal forfatter, der er i krise over at skulle færdiggøre den længe ventede opfølger til sin prisvindende roman. Han underviser spirende forfattere på univer­sitetet i Pittsburgh, mens han kæmper med sit 2000 sider lange manuskript, Wonderboys.Terry Crabtree er Grady Tripps bizarre og overstrømmende redaktør, der ikke kan dy sig for at aflægge Tripp et rykkervisit. Hans besøg ind­leder en kaotisk weekend, der udvikler sig til en odyssé, hvor vi blandt andet møder Gradys brilliante studerende, hans gravide elskerinde, hans hustru og en smuk logerende. Men også en tuba, en død hund og Marilyn Monroes jakke spiller afgørende roller.Resultatet er en hysterisk morsom og intens jagt efter fortidens løfter, fremtidig berømmelse og meningen med Gradys liv.”Absurd morsom … Chabons elegante stil, perfekt virkeliggjorte personer og morsomme syn gør det til årets mest fornøjelige bog” Esquire”Tripp,” sagde Crabtree. Nu så han direkte på mig og fastholdt mit blik, så længe det var ham muligt i betragtning af hans lystreceptorers ophidsede tilstand. ”Er det rigtigt, at den næsten er færdig?””Ja da,” sagde jeg. ”Selvfølgelig er den det. Crabtree, er det stadig dig, der er min redaktør?””Ja da,” sagde han. Han brød øjenkontakten med mig og vendte sig for igen at holde øje med det stadigt svindende antal kufferter, der kom kørende hen ad bagagebåndet. ”Alting skal nok gå.”Fra WonderboysMICHAEL CHABON er forfatteren bag bl.a. Pittsburgh-my­s­terierne, Den utrolige historie om Kavalier & Clay, Det jiddische politiforbund og Telegraph Avenue. Han bor i Berkeley, Californien, med sin kone, forfatteren Ayelet Waldman, og deres børn. For Den utrolige historie om Kavalier & Clay modtog Chabon Pulitzer-prisen i 2001.www.michaelchabon.com

Mens sommeren 2004 nærmer sig sin afslutning, holder Archy Stallings og Nat Jaffe stadig skansen – de har været venner i mange år, spiller i samme band og regerer i fælleskab over Brokeland Records, et kongerige af brugt vinyl som ligger i udkanten af Berkeley og Oakland i Californien. Deres koner, Gwen Shanks og Aviva Roth-Jaffe, udgør Berkeley Birth Partners og er legendariske jordemødre i lokalområdet. De har budt mere end tusind nyslåede indbyggere velkommen til det skrammede, bulede Utopia i hvis hjerte – halvt krostue, halvt tempel – navnet Brokeland står præget. Da den tidligere NFL-quarterback Gibson Goode, den femte-rigeste sorte mand i Amerika, offentliggør sine planer om at bygge sin seneste Dogpile Megastore lidt længere nede ad gaden Telegraph Avenue, frygter Nat og Archy at det vil føre til undergang for deres sårbare lille pladeforretning.I mellemtiden befinder Aviva og Gwen sig også midt i en kamp for deres professionelle overlevelse, en kamp der sætter rækkevidden af deres venskab på prøve. Ægteparrenes allerede indviklede tilværelser kompliceres yderligere af Titus Joyners overraskende ankomst. Titus er den teenage-søn som Archy aldrig har vedkendt sig, og bliver den store kærlighed i den 15-årige Julius Jaffes liv.Telegraph Avenue er en personlig, episk fortælling, en nordcalifornisk Middlemarch som klinger i takt med den funky hjerterytme i klassisk soul-jazz på vinyl og pulserer med en virtuos, fyrværkeri-agtig, helt særegen stil. Bogen er den store amerikanske roman vi har ventet på. Generøs, fantasifuld, morsom, rørende, spændende, menneskelig og triumferende – Michael Chabons mest blændende bog til dato.Michael Chabon er forfatteren bag bl.a. Pittsburgh-mysterierne, Wonder Boys, Den utrolige historie om Kavalier & Clay og Det jiddische politiforbund. Han bor i Berkeley, Californien, med sin kone, forfatteren Ayelet Waldman, og deres børn. For Den utrolige historie om Kavalier & Clay modtog Chabon Pulitzer-prisen i 2001.