The slaughterman's daughter
"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...
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[2020]
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| 100 | 1 | |a Iczkovits, Yaniv, |d 1975- |e author. | |
| 240 | 1 | 0 | |a Tiḳun aḥar ḥatsot. |l English |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The slaughterman's daughter / |c Yaniv Iczkovits ; translated from the Hebrew by Orr Scharf. |
| 250 | |a First American edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Schocken Books, |c [2020] | |
| 300 | |a 515 pages : |b illustrations, map ; |c 25 cm | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
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| 546 | |a In English. Translated from the Hebrew. | ||
| 520 | |a "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"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Sisters |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Shehitah |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Runaway husbands |v Fiction. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Russia |y 19th century |v Fiction. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Historical fiction. |2 lcgft | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Jewish fiction. |2 lcsh | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Scharf, Orr, |e translator. | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Online version: |a Iczkovits, Yaniv, 1975- |t The slaughterman's daughter |d New York : Schocken Books, [2020] |z 9780805243666 |w (DLC) 2020010017 |
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