The Final Solution: A Story of Detection

“A knockout…you’ll be done before you know it. Then you might well read it again.” (Denver Post )“Watching Chabon skillfully zigzag between literary and genre is half the fun of the book…refreshing.” (Miami Herald )“Delightful…and deceptively profound...Chabon shows his greatness.” (Louisville Courier Journal )“A haunting novella.” (Publishers Weekly )“The writing is everything that Chabon’s fans expect--gorgeous, muscular, mildly melancholic…wonderfully executed.” (Baltimore Sun )“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) )“Infused with a graceful, elegiac atmosphere…wrought with innovative construction, glittering with epiphany…remarkable.” (Buffalo News )“A profound pleasure.” (New York magazine )“Brilliant and unswervingly entertaining.” (The Forward )“One of the best-written American novels published this fall . . . an experiment by a master.” (The New York Sun )“Simple and startlingly sad…Chabon has created a minor masterpiece.” (Hartford Courant )“Exuberant…the real mystery is how Chabon managed to fit so much hope and humanity into such a brief tale.” (BookPage )“Packed with gorgeous writing…a knockout. You’ll be done before you know it. Then you might well read it again.” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel )“Michael Chabon, is, simply, the coolest writer in America.” (Christian Science Monitor )