The Prison

by Bernard Malamud

Genres: Short Stories

Unknown Binding

About the author

Bernard Malamud was an American novelist and short story writer. Along with Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, Norman Mailer and Philip Roth, he was one of the best known American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel, The Natural, was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford. His 1966 novel The Fixer (also filmed), about antisemitism in the Russian Empire, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

Reviews

[Rohani · Rating 4 out of 5]

A man grapples with his conscience when he witnesses a little girl stealing candy from his shop. Unfortunate timing and hard lessons were learnt. The ending did actually make me LOL.