The Fixer

by Bernard Malamud

This extraordinary book is the result of Saul Bellow's sojourn in Israel. A personal record of his stay, and a meditation, it crackles with wit and controversy on America's relationship with this embattled country.To Jerusalem and Back is, among other things, a marvelous portrait gallery, including Prime Minister Rabin at lunch; His Beatitude the Armenian Archbishop at a grand dinner; a nine-year-old violinist auditioning for Isaac Stern; an agnostic professor intoning the ceremonious Sabbath pr...