The Fixer
- Authors
- Malamud, Bernard
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Tags
- trials (murder) , jews , jewish , antisemitism , false testimony , literary , kiev (ukraine) , russia , fiction , classics , ukraine
- ISBN
- 9780374155728
- Date
- 1966-12-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.24 MB
- Lang
- en
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.