The Fixer

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"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.
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.

Biografía del autor

Bernard Malamud es un maestro del relato. Su capacidad para aunar lo cómico y lo trágico, lo particular y lo universal, lo genuinamente yiddish y lo propiamente estadounidense lo convierten en un escritor único. Este volumen reúne todos sus cuentos, que se editaron póstumamente en 1997 en su edición original.