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 brought both a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award to Bernard Malamud. He has been acclaimed by the Los Angeles Times as a writer "whose work will be read in this country long after most of the best sellers of this era are forgotten."

"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