The Slaughterman's Daughter: A Novel
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- Synopsis
- &“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) 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), as well as enough intrigue and misadventure to stupefy the Coen brothers. 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, ZviMeir, 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.
- Copyright:
- 2020
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 432 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780805243666
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780805243659
- Publisher:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 02/23/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Orr Scharf
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.