num_pages: 335
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Fixer
titlecomplete: The Fixer
characters: Grubeshov, Zhitnyak, Bibikov, Kogin, Yakov Bok, Shmuel
genres: Jewish, American, Russia, Historical Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 11099
places: Kyiv, Ukraine
awards: awardedAt: -94665600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: -94665600000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux