by Bernard Malamud · G.P · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401434020
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The Fixer, written by Bernard Malamud, is a novel that tells the story of Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman in Tsarist Russia. Tired of his life, he seeks a better future in Kiev, away from the isolation of the Jewish community. After saving the life of an anti-Semite, he gets a job but must hide his Jewish identity. When a Russian boy is murdered near his work, he is accused of the crime, facing an anti-Semitic judicial system. The novel explores themes of injustice, freedom, and the struggle for innocence in a historical context of persecution and prejudice.
Bernard Malamud was an American novelist and short story writer. Along with Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Norman Mailer and Philip Roth, he was one of the best known American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel The Natural was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford. His 1966 novel The Fixer, about antisemitism in the Russian Empire, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
