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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.
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The Fixer, Bernard Malamud, Jonathan Safran Foer
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2004
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- Titel
- The Fixer
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Bernard Malamud, Jonathan Safran Foer
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2004
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 335
- ISBN10
- 0374529388
- ISBN13
- 9780374529383
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historische Romane, Klassiker, Russland, Jüdische Literatur, Armut
- Bewertung
- 3,95 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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.