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DescriptionKiev, 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. ReviewsHis 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 --Life What makes it a great book, above and beyond its glowing goodness, has to do with something else altogether: its necessity -- Jonathan Safran Foer He writes with wisdom, compassion and humour... in the best tradition of Chekhov, Joyce and Hemingway --New York Times Author descriptionBernard 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. |