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The slaughterman's daughter
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First United States edition.
"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." --
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- 12 of 12 copies available at Westchester Library System.
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| Chappaqua Library | FICTION ICZKOVITS (Text) Fiction |
31005500430469 |
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| Eastchester Public Library | FICTION ICZKOVITS (Text) Fiction |
31008152455206 |
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| Hastings-on-Hudson Public Library | FICTION ICZKOVITS (Text) Fiction |
31011151449907 |
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| John C. Hart Memorial Library | ICZKOVITS (Text) Fiction |
31030155106487 |
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| Larchmont Public Library | ICZKOVITS (Text) Fiction |
31014152754168 |
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| Mamaroneck Public Library District | HISTORICAL FICTION (Text) Fiction |
31015152613965 |
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| Mount Kisco Public Library | FICTION ICZKOVITS (Text) Fiction |
31017151943682 |
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| Mount Vernon Public Library | FICTION ICZKOVITS (Text) Fiction |
31018155603579 |
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| New Rochelle Public Library | ICZKOVITS (Text) Fiction |
31019156703582 |
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| White Plains Public Library | FICTION (Text) Fiction |
31544101192706 |
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