{"product_id":"the-slaughtermans-daughter-a-novel","title":"The Slaughterman's Daughter A Judaic Novel by Yaniv Iczkov","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"If the Coen brothers ever ventured beyond the United States for their films, they would find ample material in this novel.\"\u003cbr\u003e--The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Occasionally a book comes along so fresh, strange, and original that it seems peerless, utterly unprecedented. This is one of those books.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e**Winner of the 2021 Wingate Literary Prize**\u003cbr\u003e**Finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Awards, \"Book Club Award\"**\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAn 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).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWith 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eYaniv 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schocken","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47799041884325,"sku":"9780805243659","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0558\/8860\/9445\/files\/9780805243659.jpg?v=1778024236","url":"https:\/\/www.israelbookshop.com\/products\/the-slaughtermans-daughter-a-novel","provider":"IsraelBookShop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}