First edition | |
Author | Bernard Malamud |
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Language | English |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
Publication date | 1966 |
Publication place | United States |
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Preceded by | Idiots First (1963) |
Followed by | Pictures of Fidelman (1969) |
The Fixer is a novel by Bernard Malamud published in 1966 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.[1] It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction (his second)[2] and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[3]
The Fixer provides a fictionalized version of the Beilis case. Menahem Mendel Beilis was a Jew unjustly imprisoned in Tsarist Russia. The "Beilis trial" of 1913 caused an international uproar and Beilis was acquitted by a jury.
The book was adapted into a 1968 film of the same name starring Alan Bates (Yakov Bok) who received an Oscar nomination.