# The Slaughterman's Daughter - Hardcover

by **Yaniv Iczkovits** (Author)

****"If the Coen brothers ever ventured beyond the United States for their films, they would find ample material in this novel."  
_\--The New York Times Book Review_****

"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)**

\*\*Winner of the 2021 Wingate Literary Prize\*\*  
\*\*Finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Awards, "Book Club Award"\*\*

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).

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, Zvi-Meir, 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.

### Author Biography

**YANIV ICZKOVITS** is the author of _Pulse, Adam and Sophie,_ and _Wittgenstein's Ethical Thought_. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University and was a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Tel Aviv. _The Slaughterman's Daughter_ was awarded the Ramat Gan Prize and the Agnon Prize; it was also short-listed for the Sapir Prize. Iczkovits lives with his family in Tel Aviv.

**ORR SCHARF** teaches cultural studies and translation theory at the University of Haifa. He is the author of _Thinking in Translation: Scripture and Redemption in the Thought of Franz Rosenzweig_. _The Slaughterman's Daughter_ is his first literary translation

**Number of Pages:** 528

**Dimensions:** 1.6 x 9.4 x 6.2 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** February 23, 2021

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