In this novel, an old woman bangs her head against the ground in front of a crucifix. This novel ends with the protagonist fantasizing about shooting a naked king while riding through a crowd in a coach. In this novel, a a pince-nez-wearing magistrate who reads Spinoza is hu
In this novel, an old woman bangs her head against the ground in front of a crucifix. This novel ends with the protagonist fantasizing about shooting a naked king while riding through a crowd in a coach. In this novel, a a pince-nez-wearing magistrate who reads Spinoza is hung by a belt in jail. The main character of this novel saves a drunken man whom he finds lying face down in the snow and almost has sex with that man's daughter, Zeneida. Shortly after the protagonist chases some boys out of a brickyard, a body with thirty-seven wounds is discovered in a nearby cave. For 10 points, name this novel in which the Jewish handyman Yakov Bok is imprisoned for ritual murder, a work of Bernard Malamud.
In this novel, an old woman bangs her head against the ground in front of a crucifix.
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