The Fixer | Marfa Vladimirovna Golov
Marfa is the mother of the boy who was killed. She lives in a squalid little house near the backyard. The story that she tells the prosecutors is inflated from the experiences relayed earlier in the book—for instance, she says that Yakov threatened her son with a knife, and that her son and another boy saw a jar of blood on Yakov's table (it was actually strawberry jam). Although the details of her life make her testimony suspicious—such as the fact that she blinded her lover, Stepan Bulkin, by throwing acid into his eyes but later reunited with him—the prosecutors still...
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