Fixer

English

ISBN: 0140185151

EAN: 9780140185157

Category: Fiction / Literary

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 01/01/1994

Synopsis: A classic that won Malamud both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award The Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamuds 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.

Awards: National Book Awards – null  Pulitzer Prize – null 

Fixer

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.72 inches

Width: 5.1 inches

Length: 7.72 inches

Weight: 7.87 oz

Pages: 304