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The Fixer (novel) The Fixer is a novel by Bernard Malamud published in 1966 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. [1] It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction (his second) [2] and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. [3] The Fixer provides a fictionalized version of the Beilis case. Menahem Mendel Beilis was a Jew unjustly imprisoned in Tsarist Russia.
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.
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The Fixer, novel by Bernard Malamud, published in 1966. It received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1967. The Fixer is considered by some to be the author’s finest novel. It is the story of a Jewish handyman, or fixer, who discovers that there is no rational reason for human cruelty; he also learns that freedom requires constant vigilance.
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May 5, 2004 · The Fixer (FSG Classics) Paperback – May 5, 2004. The Fixer is the winner of the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. 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.
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The Fixer is a historical fiction novel based on the true story of Menahem Mendel Beilis, a Jewish man falsely accused of murder in Russia in 1911. The novel explores the themes of anti-Semitism, political oppression, and human dignity through the character of Yakov Bok, who refuses to confess to a crime he did not commit.
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Feb 12, 2024 · Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize as well as the National Book Award in 1967, Bernard Malamud’s The Fixer is dedicated to Malamud’s son Paul. It tells the agonizing, harrowing tale of Yakov Shepsovitch Bok, a poor Ukrainian Jew and skilled tradesman (or “fixer”) whose barren wife, Raisl, has abandoned him. Her father, Shmuel ...
