Author: Bernard Malamud
Year: 1966
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Historical fiction, Classic, Award winners
Culture: Russia
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9780374529383
0374529388 |
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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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