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The Fixer

Jonathan Safran Foer

3.9/5 ( ratings)

A classic that won Malamud both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

The Fixer 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.

Language: English

Pages: 335

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Release: May 05, 2004

ISBN: 0374529388

ISBN 13: 9780374529383

The Fixer

Jonathan Safran Foer

3.9/5 ( ratings)

A classic that won Malamud both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

The Fixer 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.

Language: English

Pages: 335

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Release: May 05, 2004

ISBN: 0374529388

ISBN 13: 9780374529383

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