The Slaughterman’s Daughter

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Publication Year:
2020

ISBN-13: 9781487006228

<p><strong>An epic historical adventure story set in a Jewish shtetl during the final years of the Russian Empire, <i>The Slaughterman’s Daughter </i>follows Fanny Keismann on her quest to avenge her sister’s honour. </strong></p><p>When Fanny Keismann turns ten, her father, Grodno’s ritual slaughterer, gives her a knife, and she soon develops a talent for her father’s trade. But in nineteenth-century Russia, ritual slaughter does not befit a wife and mother, so when it comes time to marry and raise a family, Fanny abandons her work and devotes herself to raising her five children.</p><p>When Fanny’s older sister’s husband disappears, Fanny leaves her own family and sets out for the great city of Minsk in search of her wayward brother-in-law, armed with her old knife and accompanied by Zizek Bershov, who is either a sly rogue or an idiot. Fanny’s mission to help her sister turns into a misadventure that threatens the foundations of the Russian Empire. What began as a family matter in Motol, a peripheral Jewish settlement, breaks the bounds of the shtetl, pits the police against the Czar’s army, and upsets the political and social order they all live in.</p>