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The Fixer is Bernard Malamud's best-known and most acclaimed novel.  Set in Kiev in 1911 during a period of heightened anti-Semitism, the novel tells the story of a Jewish handyman blamed for the brutal murder of a young Russian boy.  Arrested and imprisoned, he refuses to confess to a crime he did not commit.  Winner of the 1967 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.