{"product_id":"the-slaughterman-s-daughter-9780805243659b","title":"The Slaughterman's Daughter","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn irresistible, picaresque tale of two Jewish sisters in late-nineteenth-century Russia, \u003ci\u003eThe Slaughterman’s Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e is filled with “boundless imagination and a vibrant style” (David Grossman).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n \nWith 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” of a husband, Zvi-Meir, has run off to Minsk, abandoning her and their two children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n \nAs a young girl, Fanny felt an inexorable pull toward her father’s 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—she’s 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n \nYaniv Iczkovits spins a family drama into a far-reaching comedy of errors that will pit the czar’s army against the Russian secret police and threaten the very foundations of the Russian Empire. \u003ci\u003eThe Slaughterman’s Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e is a rollicking and unforgettable work of fiction.","brand":"Schocken Books","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42825934667856,"sku":"9780805243659B","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780805243659-l.jpg?v=1785903246","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/fr\/products\/the-slaughterman-s-daughter-9780805243659b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}