by Bernard Malamud · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140027143
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Set in Czarist Russia, 'The Fixer' tells the story of Yakov Bok, a Jewish man who is arrested and imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. The novel explores themes of antisemitism, injustice, and the struggle for identity in a hostile world. Through Bok's experience, Malamud offers a powerful reflection on the human condition and resistance against oppression.
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.
