Fiction: The Fixer (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Bernard Malamud
Yakov Bok is an ordinary man accused of "ritual murder" and persecuted by agents of a remote and all-powerful state. But when he is at last pushed too far, he triumphs over almost incredible brutality and becomes a moral giant. "THE FIXER upholds the tradition of immediacy which gave the novel much of its importance and its vitality in the past, which is its chief claim to our attention in the present, and its strongest hope for the future." --National Book Award Citation Read more... |
