The slaughterman's daughter : the avenging of Mende Speismann by the hand of her sister Fanny

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Label

The slaughterman's daughter : the avenging of Mende Speismann by the hand of her sister Fanny

Title remainder

the avenging of Mende Speismann by the hand of her sister Fanny

Statement of responsibility

Yaniv Iczkovits ; translated from the Hebrew by Orr Scharf

Creator

• Iczkovits, Yaniv, 1975-

Author

• Iczkovits, Yaniv, 1975-

Subject

• Disappeared persons -- Fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
• Hebrew fiction
• Historical fiction
• Jewish women -- Fiction
• Russia -- History -- 1801-1917 -- Fiction
• Sisters -- Fiction
• Jews -- Russia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
• Butchers (Persons) -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Hebrew fiction
• Historical fiction
• Domestic fiction

Language

• eng
• heb
• eng

Summary

The townsfolk of Motal, a small town in the Pale of Settlement where nothing extraordinary ever happens, are shocked when Fanny Keismann -- devoted wife, mother of five and celebrated cheese farmer -- leaves her home at two hours past midnight and vanishes into the night. True, 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? Could 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 his family to destitution and despair? Or could Fanny have been lured away by Zizek Breshov, the mysterious ferryman on the Yaselda river, who, in a strange twist of events, seems to have disappeared on the same night? Surely there can be no link between Fanny and the peculiar roadside murder on the way to Telekhany, which has left Colonel Piotr Novak, head of the Russian secret police, scratching his head. Surely that could have nothing to do with Fanny Keismann, whatever her past, whatever her reputation as a wilde chayeh, a wild beast... surely not

Member of

• Tiḳun aḥar ḥatsot

Cataloging source

NLC

Dewey number

892.43/6

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

LC call number

PJ5055.24.C94

LC item number

T5513 2020

Literary form

novels