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Book SynopsisIf 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&
