by Bernard Malamud · Atlantic Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780857890979
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«The Assistant» is the classic American novel by Bernard Malamud, published by Atlantic Books in paperback (352 pages, in English).
Frank Alpine, a drifter fleeing his past, finds in Morris Bober, a Brooklyn shopkeeper, a path to redemption. He becomes his assistant and runs the shop when the owner falls ill; Helen, Bober's daughter, will give him a reason to stay. A portrait of the immigrant experience and the social and racial divisions of the United States.
This novel was originally published in 1957; the Atlantic Books edition dates from 2014. It is a winner of the National Jewish Book Award.
Recommended for readers of classic American fiction and of narrative on immigration and Jewish identity.
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.
