The Fixer -- Bernard Malamud

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        First Edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1967, Hardback with removable protective plastic wrap - Fiction - 352pp.

Winner of the 1966 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award.

Kiev, 1911. When a twelve-year-old Russian boy is found stabbed to death, his body drained of blood, the accusation of ritual murder is levelled at the Jews. Yakov Bok - a handyman hiding his Jewish identity from his anti-Semitic employer - is first outed and blamed. Arrested and imprisoned, Bok refuses to confess to a crime that he did not commit. What becomes of this man under pressure, for whom acquittal is made to seem as hopeless as conviction, is the subject of a terrifying masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction.

Acclaim for Malamud:

'Malamud is a rich original of the first rank' - Saul Bellow

'Malamud has never produced a mediocre novel... He is always profoundly convincing' - Anthony Burgess

'One of Malamud's extraordinary gifts has always been for lifting the realistic world up, into the realm of metaphysical fantasy. Another has been to take life, lives, seriously' - Malcolm Bradbury

'One of those rare writers who makes other writers eat their hearts out' - Melvyn Bragg

Of Malamud's short stories:

'I have discovered a short-story writer who is better than any of them, including myself' - Flannery O'Connor

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