L'homme de Kiev by Bernard Malamud

L'homme de Kiev

Bernard Malamud

409 pages first pub 1966 (view editions)

fiction classics historical challenging dark sad slow-paced
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Set in Kiev in 1911 during a period of heightened anti-Semitism, the novel tells the story of Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman blamed for the brutal murder of a young Russian boy. Bok leaves his village to try his luck in Kiev, and after denying his J...

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