{"product_id":"the-slaughtermans-daughter-a-novel-by-iczkovits-yaniv","title":"The Slaughterman's Daughter: A Novel by Iczkovits, Yaniv","description":"\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0805243658\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Iczkovits, Yaniv\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e new\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\"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 Slaughtermans Daughter is filled with boundless imagination and a vibrant style (David Grossman).With her reputation as a vilde chaya (wild animal), Fanny Keismann isnt 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 fathers 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-shes 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 czars army against the Russian secret police and threaten the very foundations of the Russian Empire. The Slaughtermans Daughter is a rollicking and unforgettable work of fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n        ","brand":"Miakarts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49676969771248,"sku":"NEW0805243658","price":33.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/ethereallybeautiful.com\/products\/the-slaughtermans-daughter-a-novel-by-iczkovits-yaniv","provider":"Ethereally Beautiful","version":"1.0","type":"link"}