The fixer / Bernard Malamud.
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TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.Description: xi, 335 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0374529388
- 9780374529383
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Fiction | MALAMUD, BERNARD | Checked out | 05/06/2024 | 33111010844260 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Fixer is the winner of the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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.
"Introduction by Jonathan Safran Foer"--Cover.
In Tsarist Russia, Yakov is accused of a ritual murder he did not commit.