Malamud's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Fixer (1957), is set in anti-Semitic, pre-Revolu-tionary Tsarist Russia. The persecuted protagonist, Yakov Bok, is imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, but through his ordeal, experiences moral growth.
Malamud's The Complete Stories (1997) contains all fifty-five short stories that Malamud wrote over a period of forty-five years, arranged in order of composition.
Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology (2000), edited by Jules Chametzky, John Felstiner,.....
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