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Title	:	The Fixer
Author	:	Bernard Malamud
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 335 pages
Published	:	May 5th 2004 by Farrar Straus Giroux (first published 1966)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics. Literature. Jewish

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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.

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Original Title:	The Fixer
ISBN:	0374529388 (ISBN13: 9780374529383)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Yakov Bok
Setting:	Kyiv(Ukraine)
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1967), National Book Award for Fiction (1967)

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Very powerful and heartfelt. I stayed up all night reading it. Sometimes it reminded me of Nineteen Eighty-Four, but with far more heart and hope. Sometimes the suffering and torment was almost too much. (view spoiler)[ I dont understand why some authors end their books like this, though. Yes, the character has learned something and hasnt broken, but you never learn if he will ever have peace, maybe even happiness, and an end to his suffering. Its unfair. (hide spoiler)] Some of the characters

After reading Norman Cohn's The Pursuit of the Millennium, which is in large part about the horrid pogroms unleashed on Europe's Jews in the Middle Ages, I thought The Fixer would be a compatible co-read. The novel is set in Russia between the end of the Russo-Japanese War (1905) and the start of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917). The Fixer tells the story of Yakov Bok, a Jew dwelling in a Russian shtetl 30 versts from Kiev who tries to work as a general handyman, a fixer. But there's not much to

Yakov Bok is non-religious and apolitical. He simply wants a better life. He is slightly bitter that life gives him lemons but no sugar to make lemonade but that does not keep him from trying to improve. He reads Spinoza to educate himself and moves to Kiev to start a better life. He is a repairman aka a "fixer". Unfortunately, he is also a Jew in Tsarist Russia.I like Yakov. He is Everyman. He is not a hero nor a wise man. But he is sincere and honest. He is a basically honest man placed in an

After reading Norman Cohn's The Pursuit of the Millennium, which is in large part about the horrid pogroms unleashed on Europe's Jews in the Middle Ages, I thought The Fixer would be a compatible co-read. The novel is set in Russia between the end of the Russo-Japanese War (1905) and the start of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917). The Fixer tells the story of Yakov Bok, a Jew dwelling in a Russian shtetl 30 versts from Kiev who tries to work as a general handyman, a fixer. But there's not much to

Well that was depressing. There may have been a time or two I have been this relieved that I have finally finished a book, but it hasn't happened often. It was such a relief to close that book knowing I never have to open it again. I know that "The Fixer" has won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, just knowing that made me go and find out what it takes to win either of these awards and this is what I found just in case you're interested: "Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: for

I am going to start with some quotes. Taste them, enjoy them and then roll them around in your head. If I have any philosophy, said Yakov Bok, it is that life could be better than it is.One thing Ive learned", he thought, "theres no such thing as an unpolitical man, especially a Jew. You cant be one without the other, thats clear enough. You cant sit still and see yourself destroyed.Yakov reflects as he goes to his trial, What is it Spinoza says? If the state acts in ways that are abhorrent to

I really enjoyed this story. However, I wondered how it could be nominated and even win a Pulitzer because of one of the requisites for judging: the book must be about life in the United States. Ah, well.