01785cam a2200397 i 4500 298664708 TxGeo 20170713120000.0 031223s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2003116991 9780374529383 trade pbk. 0374529388 trade pbk. (OCoLC)55004992 TxGeo rda Malamud, Bernard. The fixer / Bernard Malamud. New York, NY : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. xi, 335 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Introduction by Jonathan Safran Foer"--Cover. 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. 20170815. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1967. National Book Award for Fiction, 1967. Jews Ukraine Fiction. Trials (Murder) Fiction. False testimony Fiction. Antisemitism Fiction. Historical fiction. Jewish fiction. Legal fiction (Literature.) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. QS5