The Fixer
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Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner.
A landmark of twentieth-century American literature, The Fixer is a searing historical novel set in Tsarist Russia in the early 1900s. It chronicles the ordeal of Yakov Bok, a poor Jewish handyman from a small shtetl who relocates to Kiev in search of a better life, only to be falsely accused of the ritual murder of a Christian boy. Malamud draws on the real-life case of Menahem Mendel Beilis to craft a powerful and deeply humanistic narrative about injustice, persecution, and the indomitable will to survive. Written with a spare yet devastating intensity, the novel argues that the personal is inescapably political — that one man's suffering under an oppressive state is a mirror for universal human dignity. Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1967, it remains one of the most morally urgent works in the American literary canon.
Author: Bernard Malamud
Format: Paperback
Published: 1967, Penguin Books
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner.
A landmark of twentieth-century American literature, The Fixer is a searing historical novel set in Tsarist Russia in the early 1900s. It chronicles the ordeal of Yakov Bok, a poor Jewish handyman from a small shtetl who relocates to Kiev in search of a better life, only to be falsely accused of the ritual murder of a Christian boy. Malamud draws on the real-life case of Menahem Mendel Beilis to craft a powerful and deeply humanistic narrative about injustice, persecution, and the indomitable will to survive. Written with a spare yet devastating intensity, the novel argues that the personal is inescapably political — that one man's suffering under an oppressive state is a mirror for universal human dignity. Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1967, it remains one of the most morally urgent works in the American literary canon.