The Final Solution: A Story of Detection

Críticas

The writing is everything that Chabon's fans expect-gorgeous, muscular, mildly melancholic.

Both simple and startling sad...Chabon has created a minor masterpiece.

To be admired for the feeling in its sentences...One of the best-written American novels published this fall.

The writing here is taut and polished, and Chabon's characters and depictions of English country life are spot on...[A] haunting novella.

Reseña del editor

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.