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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Iczkovits, Yaniv, 1975- author.     Subjects     Sisters -- Fiction.     Shehitah -- Fiction.     Runaway husbands -- Fiction.     Russia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Iczkovits, Yaniv, 1975- author.       by title:      The slaughterman's d...         MARC Display

The slaughterman's daughter / Yaniv Iczkovits ; translated from the Hebrew by Orr Scharf. by Iczkovits, Yaniv, 1975- author. New York : Schocken Books, [2020] Subjects Sisters -- Fiction.   Shehitah -- Fiction.   Runaway husbands -- Fiction.   Russia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780805243659 (hardcover) 0805243658 (hardcover) Description:  515 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Edition:  First United States edition. Requests:  0 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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Kealakekua Public Library Adult Fiction Iczkovits Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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