{"product_id":"the-slaughtermans-daughter-9780857058300","title":"The Slaughtermans Daughter","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE WINGATE PRIZE 2021\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e MUST READS PICK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eECONOMIST \u003c\/i\u003eBEST BOOKS OF 2020 PICK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKIRKUS REVIEWS\u003c\/i\u003e 10 BOOKS TO LOOK FOR IN 2021 PICK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBoundless imagination and a vibrant style\u003c\/b\u003e . . . \u003cb\u003ea heroine of unforgettable grit DAVID GROSSMAN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA story of great beauty and surprise GARY SHTEYNGART\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe townsfolk of Motal, an isolated, godforsaken town in the Pale of Settlement, are shocked when Fanny Keismann - devoted wife, mother of five, and celebrated cheese-maker\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eleaves her home at two hours past midnight and vanishes into the night.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrue, the husbands of Motal have been vanishing for years, but a wife and mother? Whoever heard of such a thing. What on earth possessed her?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCould it have anything to do with Fanny''s missing brother-in-law, who left her sister almost a year ago and ran away to Minsk, abandoning their family to destitution and despair?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOr c\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith \u003cb\u003eboundless imagination and a vibrant style\u003c\/b\u003e,  Yaniv Iczkovits creates a colorful family drama that spins nineteenth century Russia out of control, and he delivers \u003cb\u003ea heroine of unforgettable grit\u003c\/b\u003e. Iczkovits wields his pen with \u003cb\u003ewit and panache\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003eA remarkable and evocative read\u003c\/b\u003e -- David Grossman\u003cbr\u003eA story of \u003cb\u003egreat beauty and surprise\u003c\/b\u003e. A necessary antidote for our times -- Gary Shteyngart\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Slaughterman's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ea miraculous patchwork-quilt of individual stories within stories\u003c\/b\u003e told by different voices through which Fanny, the Belorussian Jewish slaughterman's daughter, cuts with her butcher's knife in search of justice. That quest for justice is the master story: \u003cb\u003ea feminist picaresque set in a landscape of visionary and intimate historical and physical detail\u003c\/b\u003e -- George Szirtes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTotally compulsive reading\u003c\/b\u003e -- Rosemary Sullivan\u003cbr\u003eWith the \u003cb\u003esweeping grandeur\u003c\/b\u003e of a Russian epic and the \u003cb\u003esly, sometimes bawdy humour\u003c\/b\u003e of the Yiddish greats, \u003ci\u003eThe Slaughterman's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ea magnificent triumph\u003c\/b\u003e -- Bram Presser, author of The Book of Dirt\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eAn extraordinarily vivid portrayal\u003c\/b\u003e of life in the Pale of Settlement, an area of the pre-revolutionary Russian Empire where Jews were allowed, begrudgingly, to live\" -- Antonia Senior * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eA narrative \u003cb\u003efull of invention and surprises\u003c\/b\u003e . . . Iczkovits mixes real history, fable and the products of his imagination into an \u003cb\u003eintoxicating, thoroughly enjoyable\u003c\/b\u003e brew -- Nick Rennison * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eYaniv Iczkovits' \u003cb\u003ebrilliant, sweeping\u003c\/b\u003e novel is set in czarist Russia during the late nineteenth century, but feels \u003cb\u003ehighly relevant and resonant today \u003c\/b\u003e. . .\u003cb\u003e filled with exquisitely drawn characters . . . bold and provocative\u003c\/b\u003e -- Elaine Margolin * TLS *\u003cbr\u003eA born storyteller . . . Iczkovits is \u003cb\u003eclearly a talent to watch\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Slaughterman's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e is the place to start -- David Herman * Jewish Chronicle *\u003cbr\u003eEchoes of Russian and Yiddish literature resound in this \u003cb\u003edelightful picaresque\u003c\/b\u003e, but you need not hear them to enjoy it . . . Technicolour characters, pathos and humour are all \u003cb\u003ewonderfully captured in a nimble translation from the Hebrew\u003c\/b\u003e * Economist (Books of the Year, 2020) *\u003cbr\u003eIt's \u003cb\u003ea genuine pleasure\u003c\/b\u003e to see all of the different strands of the story come together in the final act. \u003cb\u003eIf the Coen brothers ever ventured beyond the United States for their films, they would find ample material in this novel\u003c\/b\u003e . . . An ultimately hopeful search for small comforts and a modicum of justice in an absurd and immoral world -- New York Times * Shay K. Azoulay *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eApproaches history in a fabulist style reminiscent of Sholem Aleichem and his disciples\u003c\/b\u003e . . . The folktale tradition evoked in the storytelling has an estimable history, but perhaps even more old-fashioned is this novel's length and leisurely tempo. Mr. Iczkovits slowly elaborates his scenes, indulging in every tangent and scrap of context, as though there weren't countless forms of instant entertainment vying for the reader's attention. \u003cb\u003eI appreciated the pace\u003c\/b\u003e . . . Today it would be a quick drive to Minsk; once upon a time the trip was \u003cb\u003ethe stuff of epics\u003c\/b\u003e -- Sam Sacks * Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003eOccasionally a book comes along so \u003cb\u003efresh, strange, and original\u003c\/b\u003e that it seems \u003cb\u003epeerless, utterly unprecedented\u003c\/b\u003e. This is one of those books. Iczkovits is a superb talent, and this novel is \u003cb\u003ea resounding success\u003c\/b\u003e * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *\u003cbr\u003eWhat begins as a small family drama\u003cb\u003e explodes in every possible direction in its virtuosity\u003c\/b\u003e * Haaretz *\u003cbr\u003eAn adventure story with few like it in modern Hebrew literature . . . \u003cb\u003ea simply outstanding novel\u003c\/b\u003e * Walla *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA major novel that zigzags between characters and plots, between history and psychology\u003c\/b\u003e, rooted in a brilliant narrative * Haaretz Gallery *\u003cbr\u003eWe should keep an eye on Iczkovits. He is \u003cb\u003ean amazing talent\u003c\/b\u003e who will be talked about for a long time to come * Time Out, on ADAM AND SOPHIE *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quercus Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47836586049879,"sku":"9780857058300","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857058300.jpg?v=1710379074","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-slaughtermans-daughter-9780857058300","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}