(Fiction, 352 p. 1966)
Malamud won both the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for his novel set in Kiev in 1911. During a period of heightened anti-Semitism, an apolitical, nonobservant Jewish handyman is arrested and imprisoned for the ritual murder of a young Russian boy. Refusing to confess to a crime that he did not commit, the “fixer” vacillates between despair, outrage, and hope for justice.
- Discussion questions
- Kirkus review
- Review by Eliot Fremont-Smith, New York Times, August 29, 1966
- Wikipedia article
