by Bernard Malamud · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140026214
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«The Assistant» is Bernard Malamud's literary fiction novel, published by Penguin in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Morris Bober runs a small shop in postwar Brooklyn and aspires to a better life for his family. The assault he suffers and the arrival of Frank Alpine, a stranger with a broken nose who ends up working with him, disrupt the family's routine. The novel portrays the difficult situation of Jewish immigrants and their contradictions.
Bernard Malamud's second novel, originally published in 1957; winner of the National Jewish Book Award and finalist for the National Book Award in 1958.
For readers of classic American fiction and Jewish and immigrant narrative.
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.
