num_pages: 279
description: Left as an emotional zombie after witnessing the murder of his family during the Nazi Holocaust, a Harlem pawnbroker runs his shop as a front for organized crime.
language: English
title: The Pawnbroker
titlecomplete: The Pawnbroker
genres: Fiction, American Fiction, Psychology, Jewish, Novels, Holocaust, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Race, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 634
awards: awardedAt: -252432000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich