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ISBN10: 0805243658
ISBN13: 9780805243659
Publisher: Schocken Books Inc
Published: Feb 23 2021
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.76
Height: 1.60 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780805243659
Publisher: Schocken Books Inc
Published: Feb 23 2021
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.76
Height: 1.60 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
If the Coen brothers ever ventured beyond the United States for their films, they would find ample material in this novel.
--The New York Times Book Review Occasionally a book comes along so fresh, strange, and original that it seems peerless, utterly unprecedented. This is one of those books.
--The New York Times Book Review Occasionally a book comes along so fresh, strange, and original that it seems peerless, utterly unprecedented. This is one of those books.
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) **Winner of the 2021 Wingate Literary Prize**
**Finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Awards, Book Club Award** An irresistible, picaresque tale of two Jewish sisters in late-nineteenth-century Russia, The Slaughterman's Daughter is filled with boundless imagination and a vibrant style (David Grossman). With her reputation as a vilde chaya (wild animal), Fanny Keismann isn't like the other women in her shtetl in the Pale of Settlement--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. As a young girl, Fanny felt an inexorable pull toward her father's profession of ritual slaughterer and, under his reluctant guidance, became a master with a knife. And though she long ago gave up that unsuitable profession--she's now the wife of a cheesemaker and a mother of five--Fanny still keeps the knife tied to her right leg. Which might come in handy when, heedless of the dangers facing a Jewish woman traveling alone in czarist Russia, she 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. Yaniv Iczkovits spins a family drama into a far-reaching comedy of errors that will pit the czar's army against the Russian secret police and threaten the very foundations of the Russian Empire. The Slaughterman's Daughter is a rollicking and unforgettable work of fiction.
**Finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Awards, Book Club Award** An irresistible, picaresque tale of two Jewish sisters in late-nineteenth-century Russia, The Slaughterman's Daughter is filled with boundless imagination and a vibrant style (David Grossman). With her reputation as a vilde chaya (wild animal), Fanny Keismann isn't like the other women in her shtetl in the Pale of Settlement--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. As a young girl, Fanny felt an inexorable pull toward her father's profession of ritual slaughterer and, under his reluctant guidance, became a master with a knife. And though she long ago gave up that unsuitable profession--she's now the wife of a cheesemaker and a mother of five--Fanny still keeps the knife tied to her right leg. Which might come in handy when, heedless of the dangers facing a Jewish woman traveling alone in czarist Russia, she 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. Yaniv Iczkovits spins a family drama into a far-reaching comedy of errors that will pit the czar's army against the Russian secret police and threaten the very foundations of the Russian Empire. The Slaughterman's Daughter is a rollicking and unforgettable work of fiction.
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