Bernard Malamud
Paperback | Pages: 335 pages Rating: 3.96 | 9554 Users | 544 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Fixer |
| Author | : | Bernard Malamud |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 335 pages |
| Published | : | May 5th 2004 by Farrar Straus Giroux (first published 1966) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics. Literature. Jewish |
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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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| Original Title: | The Fixer |
| ISBN: | 0374529388 (ISBN13: 9780374529383) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Yakov Bok |
| Setting: | Kyiv(Ukraine) |
| Literary Awards: | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1967), National Book Award for Fiction (1967) |
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Ratings: 3.96 From 9554 Users | 544 ReviewsCriticism About Books The Fixer
What a difficult book to read, and, I can only imagine, to write. We start with the injustice of poverty and lack of opportunity in the shtetl and move almost directly into a variety of unjust accusations leveled against Yakov Bok, who has become a scapegoat for all the imagined evil deeds of all the Jews in Russia.Bok leaves the shtetl with hopes of a better life in Kiev. At first, things look up for him. Serendipity finds him a good job, and he is able to afford some books, and even put awayBernard Malamud's The Fixer offers a grimly compelling portrait of antisemitism in Tsarist Russia. Drawing on the real-life Beilis case, Malamud imagines a Jewish tinker and repairman falsely accused of ritually murdering a Christian boy in 1910s Ukraine. Arrested purely by happenstance, he becomes an unwitting martyr while struggling to survive cruel treatment in prison, numerous legal challenges and the grinding insistence on his humanity. Malamud scores with his sparse yet penetrating style;
This is one of those rare books that shake you to the core. Amazing.
In chains all that was left of freedom was life, just existence; but to exist without choice was the same as death.(con TRADUZIONE) In this National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner, Bernard Malamud presents a fictionalized account of a notorious anti-Semitic incident, the arrest and eventual trial, following a great outcry in the West, of Mendel Beilis in pre-Revolutionary Kiev. Beilis was accused of murdering a Christian boy, despite evidence pointing toward the boy's own mother. After
This book was definitely thought-provoking and interesting, but it was depressing. So depressing. Every time there was a glimmer of hope, there was something to extinguish it. It was hard to read in large chunks. I don't think I can say I enjoyed reading it, but it sparked conversation with my husband and made me think about history and prejudice. Worth reading, but a super downer.
THE FIXERSummer 2012TBR Busting 2012paperone pennypub 1966historical fictionRussia> Kiev> Jews> anti-semiticism> protocols of zionAfter Japanese/Russian war and leading up to Revolution Pulitzer prize for fictionMessianic symbolismOpening: From the small crossed window of his room above the stable in the brickyard, Yakov Bok saw people in their long overcoats running somewhere early that morning, everybody in the same direction.Yesterday's read was set in Yalta (Crimea) (1911)Today's
Bernard Malamud's, Pulitzer Prize winning novel, "The Fixer" is a powerful, harrowing book and like any great piece of literature, it extends beyond its characters and setting and into the future and back into the past and forever remains relevant. Published in 1966, it takes place in Tsarist Russia between 1905-1908 when a wave of anti-Semitism swept across the country and the annexed country of Ukraine.The story is about a peasant, Yakow Bok - The Fixer, who is wrongly accused of a crime
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