The Yiddish Policemen's Union

An alternate history novel set in a Jewish settlement, Sitka, in southern Alaska, The Yiddish Policemen's Union tells the story of a down-on-his-luck detective named Landsman who has to investigate the death of a junkie who may have been the Messiah before his untimely death.

This book was amazingly written. I hadn't read much Chagon previously, but he's one of those writers who has a complete mastery over the language, to a degree where I think I would read him write about anything at all, just because of the style it's written in.