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The fixer / Bernard Malamud.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PS3563.A4 F5 1966
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Malamud, Bernard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Ukraine--Fiction.
- Jews.
- Ukraine.
- Trials (Murder)--Fiction.
- Trials (Murder).
- False testimony--Fiction.
- False testimony.
- Kyïv (Ukraine)--Fiction.
- Kyïv (Ukraine).
- Antisemitism--Fiction.
- Antisemitism.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Jewish fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Legal stories.
- Physical Description:
- 335 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1966]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Pulitzer Prize, 1967.
- Cited in:
- Fiction core collection. 16th ed., p. 539
- ISBN:
- 0374155720
- 9780374155728
- OCLC:
- 181838
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