{"product_id":"the-fixer-2","title":"The Fixer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fixer\u003c\/i\u003e is the winner of the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fixer\u003c\/i\u003e (1966) is Bernard Malamud's best-known and most acclaimed novel -- one that makes manifest his roots in Russian fiction, especially that of Isaac Babel. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in Kiev in 1911 during a period of heightened anti-Semitism, the novel tells the story of Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman blamed for the brutal murder of a young Russian boy. Bok leaves his village to try his luck in Kiev, and after denying his Jewish identity, finds himself working for a member of the anti-Semitic Black Hundreds Society. When the boy is found nearly drained of blood in a cave, the Black Hundreds accuse the Jews of ritual murder. Arrested and imprisoned, Bok refuses to confess to a crime that he did not commit.\r","brand":"Bernard Malamud, Jonathan Safran Foer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44447379456236,"sku":"9780374529383","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780374529383.jpg?v=1720893657","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/the-fixer-2","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}