The Fixer (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover

Malamud, Bernard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140185151 ISBN 13: 9780140185157

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1993

Synopsis

Kiev, in the years before World War I, is a hotbed of anti-Semitism. When a 12-year-old Russian boy is found stabbed to death, his body drained of blood, the accusation of ritual murder is made against the Jews. Yokov Bok, a carpenter, is blamed, arrested and imprisoned without indictment.

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Review:

"Brilliant [and] harrowing . . . Historical reality combined with fictional skill and beauty of a high order make [it] a novel of startling importance." ---Elizabeth Hardwick, "Vogue"
"What makes it a great book, above and beyond its glowing goodness, has to do with something else altogether: its necessity...This novel, like all great novels reminds us that we must do something." -- Jonathan Safran Foer, author of" Everything Is Illuminated"
"The Fixer deserves to rank alongside the great Jewish-American novels of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth." --"The Independent (London)"
"A literary event in any season." --Eliot Fremont-Smith, "The New York Times"

Book Description:

On the centenary of Malamud's birth, Atlantic Books is proud to republish what is considered to be the haunting masterpiece of one of the giants of post-war American fiction

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0140185151
• ISBN 13: 9780140185157
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304