The Fixer

The Fixer

by Benard Malamud (Author)

Synopsis

A classic that won Malamud both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award "The Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamud's best-known and most acclaimed novel -- one that makes manifest his roots in Russian fiction, especially that of Isaac Babel. Set in Kiev in 1911 during a period of heightened anti-Semitism, the novel tells the story of Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman blamed for the brutal murder of a young Russian boy. Bok leaves his village to try his luck in Kiev, and after denying his Jewish identity, finds himself working for a member of the anti-Semitic Black Hundreds Society. When the boy is found nearly drained of blood in a cave, the Black Hundreds accuse the Jews of ritual murder. Arrested and imprisoned, Bok refuses to confess to a crime that he did not commit.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Edition: New impression
Publisher: Penguin
Published: Nov 1969

ISBN 10: 0140027149
ISBN 13: 9780140027143
Prizes: Winner of Pulitzer Prize Novel Category 1967.

Media Reviews
Brilliant [and] harrowing . . . Historical reality combined with fictional skill and beauty of a high order make [it] a novel of startling importance. ---Elizabeth Hardwick, Vogue What makes it a great book, above and beyond its glowing goodness, has to do with something else altogether: its necessity...This novel, like all great novels reminds us that we must do something. -- Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything Is Illuminated The Fixer deserves to rank alongside the great Jewish-American novels of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. -- The Independent (London) A literary event in any season. --Eliot Fremont-Smith, The New York Times