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The Fixer / 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.

GMD	Book
Corporate Author	Fiction
Classification	F-MAL-F
Publisher	England & New York, Penguin Books, 1966
Subject	FictionJews--Ukraine--Fiction.Trials (Murder)--Fiction.False testimony--Fiction.Antisemitism--Fiction.Kiev (Ukraine)--Fiction.
ISBN	9780140185157
URL	https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/5767351?q=the+fixer+by+bernard+malamud&c=book&sort=holdings+desc&_=1575947984347&versionId=36192137