The Slaughterman's Daughter
New York : Schocken Books, [2021]
Format: Book
Edition: First United States edition.
Description: 515 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
"An enthralling, picaresque tale of two Jewish sisters in late nineteenth-century Russia, filled with "boundless imagination, wit, and panache" (David Grossman), and enough intrigue and misadventure to stupefy the Cohen brothers. With her reputation as a vilde chaya, a wild beast, Fanny Keismann isn't like the other women in her shtetl-certainly not her obedient and anxiety-ridden sister, Mende, whose "philosopher" of a husband, Zvi-Meir, has run off to Minsk, abandoning her and their two children in a small village in Russia's Pale of Settlement. As a young girl, Fanny felt an inexorable pull toward the profession of her father, Grodno's ritual slaughterer, who reluctantly took her under his wing and trained her to be a master shochet-incredibly skilled with a knife. It's a knife that Fanny keeps tied to her right leg even now, as a married woman, cheese farmer, and mother of five, long after she's given up that unsuitable profession. Horrified by her brother-in-law's actions and heedless of the dangers facing a Jewish woman travelling alone in Czarist Russia, Fanny decides that enough is enough and sets off to track down Zvi-Meir and bring him home-with the help of the mute and mysterious ferryman, Zizek Breshov, an ex-soldier with his own sensational past. In irresistible prose, Israeli novelist Yaniv Iczkovits spins a family drama into a far-reaching comedy of errors that soon pits the Czar's army against the Russian secret police and threatens the foundations of the Russian Empire. The Slaughterman's Daughter is a rollicking and unforgettable work of fiction"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
Sisters -- Fiction.
Abandoned wives -- Fiction.
Jewish women -- Russia -- Fiction.
Jewish families -- Russia -- Fiction.
Russia -- History -- 1801-1917 -- Fiction.
Sisters -- Fiction.
Abandoned wives -- Fiction.
Jewish women -- Russia -- Fiction.
Jewish families -- Russia -- Fiction.
Russia -- History -- 1801-1917 -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780805243659
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Iczkovits | Wheatley (Shandon) | Fiction | In |
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Originally published in Israel as תיקון אחר חצות by Keter Books Jerusalem, in 2015. First published in Great Britain in 2020 by MacLehose Press, an imprint of Quercus.