The slaughterman's daughter : a novel
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Uniform Title
Author
Contributors
Scharf, Orr, translator.
Published
New York : Schocken Books, [2020].
Format
Book
Edition
First United States Edition.
ISBN
9780805243659, 0805243658
Physical Desc
515 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Status
Montville Township Library - Adult Fiction
FIC ICZKOVITS
1 available
FIC ICZKOVITS
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Published
New York : Schocken Books, [2020].
Edition
First United States Edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780805243659, 0805243658
Notes
Description
"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"--,Provided by publisher.
Language
Originally published in Hebrew as: Tiḳun aḥar ḥatsot.
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Montville Township Library - Adult Fiction | FIC ICZKOVITS | Available |
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Fiction | FICTION ICZKOVITS | Available |
Florham Park Library - Adult Fiction | FICTION ICZKOVITS | Available |
Morris County Library - Adult Fiction | FICTION ICZKOVITS, YANIV | Available |
Mountainside Public Library - Adult Fiction | F ICZ | Available |
Randolph Township Library - Adult Fiction | FICTION ICZKOVITS | Available |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Iczkovits, Y., & Scharf, O. (2020). The slaughterman's daughter: a novel (First United States Edition.). Schocken Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Iczkovits, Yaniv, 1975- and Orr, Scharf. 2020. The Slaughterman's Daughter: A Novel. Schocken Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Iczkovits, Yaniv, 1975- and Orr, Scharf. The Slaughterman's Daughter: A Novel Schocken Books, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Iczkovits, Yaniv, and Orr Scharf. The Slaughterman's Daughter: A Novel First United States Edition., Schocken Books, 2020.
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