The Fixer
(Paperback, Main)
Publishing Details
The Fixer
By (Author) Bernard Malamud
Atlantic Books
Atlantic Books
23rd April 2014
3rd April 2014
Main
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
813.54
Winner of Pulitzer Prize 1966 (UK)
Physical Properties
Paperback
448
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 27mm
309g
Description
Kiev, 1911. When a twelve-year-old Russian boy is found stabbed to death, his body drained of blood, the accusation of ritual murder is levelled at the Jews. Yakov Bok - a handyman hiding his Jewish identity from his anti-Semitic employer - is first outed and blamed. Arrested and imprisoned, Bok refuses to confess to a crime that he did not commit. What becomes of this man under pressure, for whom acquittal is made to seem as hopeless as conviction, is the subject of a terrifying masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction.
Reviews
His masterpiece * Philip Roth *
The Fixer deserves to rank alongside the great Jewish-American novels of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth * Independent *
A novel of great power, even grandeur
What makes it a great book, above and beyond its glowing goodness, has to do with something else altogether: its necessity
He writes with wisdom, compassion and humour... in the best tradition of Chekhov, Joyce and Hemingway * New York Times *
An absorbing, compelling and deeply human tale of freedom, hate and morality, its deceptively simple style and beautifully wrought sentences hold you captive from its opening... If the term wasn't cheapened by constant use, I'd call it a masterpiece... A novel that could change your life * Guardian *
Author Bio
Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) was an American author of novels and short stories. Along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, he was one of the great American-Jewish authors of the twentieth century. His baseball novel, The Natural, was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford. His 1966 novel The Fixer, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
