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The slaughterman's daughter : a novel

Title
The slaughterman's daughter : a novel / Yaniv Iczkovits ; translated from the Hebrew by Orr Scharf.
Author
Iczkovits, Yaniv, 1975-
Publication
New York : Schocken Books, [2020]

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Additional Authors
Scharf, Orr
Description
515 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
"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"--
Uniform Title
Tiḳun aḥar ḥatsot. English
Alternative Title
Tiḳun aḥar ḥatsot.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Jewish fiction.
  • Historical fiction.
  • Fiction.
Note
  • "A novel"--Dust jacket.
  • 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.
Source (note)
  • of Janice Quint;
Call Number
JFE 22-3363
ISBN
  • 9780805243659
  • 0805243658
LCCN
2020010016
OCLC
1145078987
Author
Iczkovits, Yaniv, 1975- author.
Title
The slaughterman's daughter : a novel / Yaniv Iczkovits ; translated from the Hebrew by Orr Scharf.
Publisher
New York : Schocken Books, [2020]
Edition
First United States edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Source
Gift; of Janice Quint; 2022.
Chronological Term
1800-1899
Added Author
Scharf, Orr, translator.
Quint, Janice, donor.
Other Form:
Online version: Iczkovits, Yaniv, 1975- The slaughterman's daughter New York : Schocken Books, [2020] 9780805243666 (DLC) 2020010017
Research Call Number
JFE 22-3363
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