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Published by Penguin Books Ltd 1969 Paperback, 1969
ISBN 10: 0140016651ISBN 13: 9780140016659
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Fair. 160 pages.
Published by Penguin Books Ltd 1969 Paperback, 1970
ISBN 10: 0140027149ISBN 13: 9780140027143
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. A classic that won Malamud both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award '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. 304 pages.