Winner of the 1966 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Kiev,
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. Acclaim for Malamud: 'Malamud is a rich original of the
first rank' Saul Bellow 'Malamud has never produced a mediocre
novel... He is always profoundly convincing' Anthony Burgess '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' Malcolm Bradbury 'One of
those rare writers who makes other writers eat their hearts out'
Melvyn Bragg Of Malamud's short stories: 'I have discovered a
short-story writer who is better than any of them, including
myself' Flannery O'Connor
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