Seniors Read Banned Books -- "The Fixer," by Bernard Malamud

"The Fixer" by Bernard Malamud is an older book, winner of the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Now it is on the banned books list.
Russia, 1911. Yakov Bok, a luckless Jewish handyman, abandoned by his wife, decides to leave the shtetl, seeking improved fortune in the outside world. In Kiev, an opportunity for advancement presents itself, and Yakov, somewhat warily, takes it, leading him into circumstances where politics and history --and possibly an indifferent God as well-- will conspire against him. Yakov is thrown in jail, absurdly accused of the ritual murder of a young Christian boy. Languishing in prison, enduring torture and indignity while waiting for a day in court that may never come, Yakov is left to wrestle with his own haunted memories and to wonder whether he can find any meaning or purpose in his suffering and any justice in a society where Jews have always been made into victims.
"The Fixer" is based on the notorious real-life Beilis blood-libel case in Russia, which in its day caused an international uproar.