{"product_id":"fixer-pb","title":"Bernard Malamud: FIXER [2014] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 1966 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKiev, 1911. When a twelve-year-old Russian boy is found stabbed to death, his body drained of blood, the accusation of ritual murder is levelled at the Jews. Yakov Bok - a handyman hiding his Jewish identity from his anti-Semitic employer - is first outed and blamed. Arrested and imprisoned, Bok refuses  to confess to a crime that he did not commit. What becomes of this man under pressure, for whom acquittal is made to seem as hopeless as conviction, is the subject of a terrifying masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcclaim for Malamud:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Malamud is a rich original of the first rank' \u003cb\u003eSaul Bellow\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Malamud has never produced a mediocre novel... He is always profoundly convincing' \u003cb\u003eAnthony Burgess \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of Malamud's extraordinary gifts has always been for lifting the realistic world up, into the realm of metaphysical fantasy. Another has been to take life, lives, seriously' \u003cb\u003eMalcolm Bradbury\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of those rare writers who makes other writers eat their hearts out' \u003cb\u003eMelvyn Bragg\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOf Malamud's short stories:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I have discovered a short-story writer who is better than any of them, including myself' \u003cb\u003eFlannery O'Connor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Malamud, Bernard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44390671024418,"sku":"9780857890948","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/malamud-bernard-fixer-pb-9780857890948-40474055278882.jpg?v=1675279430","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/fixer-pb","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}