Winner, Agnon Prize
Winner, Ramat Gan Prize for Literary Excellence
Finalist, Sapir Prize
“With boundless imagination and a vibrant style, Yaniv Iczkovits creates a colourful family drama that spins nineteenth-century Russia out of control, and he delivers a heroine of unforgettable grit. Iczkovits wields his pen with wit and panache. A remarkable and evocative read.” — DAVID GROSSMAN, Man Booker International Prize–winning author of A Horse Walks into a Bar
“A story of great beauty and surprise. A necessary antidote for our times.” — GARY SHTEYNGART, award-winning author of The Russian Debutante’s Handbook and Lake Success
“Totally compulsive reading.” — ROSEMARY SULLIVAN, award-winning author of Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
“Combine a thriller with a road story, Fiddler on the Roof, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and a Russian novel, throw in a page-turning adventure, a few fables, some ethical speculation, a Bildungsroman, and more than one love story, and you get this epic tale. It’s witty, wise, exciting, intriguing, sorrowful, joyous, and tender. And that goes for the story as well as its characters. Full of surprise, understanding, historic sweep, and more than a few murders, The Slaughterman’s Daughter keeps you deliciously poised on a keen and beguiling fictional knife-edge.” — GARY BARWIN, Scotiabank Giller Prize–shortlisted author of Yiddish for Pirates
“With the sweeping grandeur of a Russian epic and the sly, sometimes bawdy humour of the Yiddish greats, The Slaughterman’s Daughter is a magnificent triumph.” — BRAM PRESSER, National Jewish Book Award–winning author of The Book of Dirt
“The Slaughterman’s Daughter is a miraculous patchwork quilt of individual stories within stories told by different voices through which Fanny, the Belorussian Jewish slaughterman’s daughter, cuts with her butcher knife in search of justice. That quest for justice is the master story: a feminist picaresque set in a landscape of visionary and intimate historical and physical detail.” — GEORGE SZIRTES, T.S. Eliot Prize–winning poet
“What begins as a small family drama explodes in every possible direction in its virtuosity.” — Haaretz
“An adventure story with few like it in modern Hebrew literature . . . A simply outstanding novel.” — YARON LONDON, Walla
“A major novel that zigzags between characters and plots, between history and psychology, rooted in a brilliant narrative.” — GILI IZIKOVICH, Haaretz Gallery