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Exploring themes of identity, dislocation, and human experience, this collection showcases Bernard Malamud's profound storytelling. It features three notable 1960s novels: "A New Life," a satirical take on academia; "The Fixer," a harrowing tale of wrongful imprisonment in Russia; and "Pictures of Fidelman," chronicling the humorous struggles of an American artist in Italy. The volume concludes with ten compelling stories that highlight Malamud's literary prowess, drawing comparisons to greats like Hawthorne and Kafka.

A matchmaker finds love for a would-be rabbi; a shopkeeper dies because he cannot afford a doctor; a little girl steals candy; an angel visits a grieving tailor. Through Malamud's great gifts as a writer - humour and profound concern for the matter of human life - he transmutes the particular struggles of everyday sufferers into a strange poetry.

New York Times Notable Book of the Year Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1997 With an Introduction by Robert Giroux, The Complete Stories of Bernard Malamud is "an essential American book," Richard Stern declared in the Chicago Tribune when the collection was published in hardcover. His praise was echoed by other reviewers and by readers, who embraced the book as they might a displaced person in one of Malamud's stories, now returned to us, complete and fulfilled and recognized at last. The volume gathers together fifty-five stories, from "Armistice" (1940) to "Alma Redeemed" (1984), and including the immortal stories from The Magic Barrel and the vivid depictions of the unforgettable Fidelman. It is a varied and generous collection of great examples of the modern short story, which Malamud perfected, and an ideal introduction to the work of this great American writer.

Fidelman, a "self-confessed failure as a painter", Salzman the marriage broker and Liev the baker are a few of the author's characters, mostly Jewish, who tend to start off friendly and end up not. All of them are torn between the desire to adapt to life in America and the need to remember.

God's Grace is an apocalyptic tale set in an imaginary time and place. It is an audacious story and probably the author's most controversial work.

He's a natural athlete and everything is going his way - the game he loves, and the woman he thought he'd lost. But he's up against the corrupters, the seducers, and the glory destroyers.

The book features a fresh introduction by Thomas Mallon, providing new insights and context for readers. It delves into themes and elements that enrich the original narrative, offering a contemporary perspective that enhances the understanding of the work. The introduction serves to connect the historical significance of the text with modern interpretations, inviting both new and returning readers to explore its depths.

When Rembrandt the bear loses his special lucky hat, he finds that neither a bird nor a clown hat can replace it.

With a new introduction by Aleksandar Hemon In "The Tenants" (1971), Bernard Malamud brought his unerring sense of modern urban life to bear on the conflict between blacks and Jews then inflaming his native Brooklyn. The sole tenant in a rundown tenement, Henry Lesser is struggling to finish a novel, but his solitary pursuit of the sublime grows complicated when Willie Spearmint, a black writer ambivalent toward Jews, moves into the building. Henry and Willie are artistic rivals and unwilling neighbors, and their uneasy peace is disturbed by the presence of Willie's white girlfriend Irene and the landlord Levenspiel's attempts to evict both men and demolish the building. This novel's conflict, current then, is perennial now; it reveals the slippery nature of the human condition, and the human capacity for violence and undoing.