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The Slaughterman's Daughter de Yaniv Iczkovits

The Slaughterman's Daughter

Autor Yaniv Iczkovits
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 feb 2021

În Motal, un târg uitat de lume din Pale of Settlement, timpul pare să se fi oprit sub greutatea tradițiilor și a iernilor rusești de la finalul secolului al XIX-lea. Alegerea acestui spațiu de către Yaniv Iczkovits nu este întâmplătoare; această fâșie de pământ la marginea Imperiului Rus devine scena unei rebeliuni neașteptate. Apreciem modul în care autorul transformă o premisă domestică — dispariția unei mame devotate și producătoare de brânză — într-o epopee picarescă plină de tensiune și umor negru. The Slaughterman's Daughter nu este doar o căutare a unui membru al familiei rătăcit în Minsk, ci o explorare a identității feminine într-o lume guvernată de bărbați și de poliția secretă a colonelului Piotr Novak. Considerăm că forța acestui roman rezidă în contrastul dintre aparența fragilă a lui Fanny Keismann și reputația ei ascunsă de „vilde chaya”. Structura narativă este densă, îmbogățită de 12 ilustrații care ancorează vizual cititorul în atmosfera epocii. Cititorul care a apreciat legătura profundă dintre tradiție și destinul personal din The Slave de Isaac Bashevis Singer va găsi aici o vibrație similară a spiritului evreiesc, dar transpusă într-un ritm de aventură istorică mult mai alert. Subliniem, de asemenea, măiestria traducerii din limba ebraică, care păstrează nuanțele filosofice și ironia subtilă a lui Iczkovits. Este o lucrare care, deși ancorată în istoria est-europeană, vorbește despre curajul universal de a părăsi siguranța căminului pentru un act de dreptate.

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ISBN-13: 9780805243659
ISBN-10: 0805243658
Pagini: 528
Dimensiuni: 170 x 243 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care savurează proza istorică de anvergură, cu personaje feminine atipice și puternice. Veți câștiga o perspectivă fascinantă asupra vieții din comunitățile evreiești de la granița imperiilor, totul sub forma unui roman de aventură captivant. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei care caută profunzime filosofică împletită cu o intrigă polițistă ingenioasă, fiind recunoscută internațional prin premiul Wingate.

Despre autor

Yaniv Iczkovits este un scriitor premiat și fost lector de filosofie la Universitatea din Tel Aviv, specializat în gândirea lui Wittgenstein. Background-ul său academic și experiența personală — a petrecut o lună în închisoarea militară după ce a refuzat să servească în teritoriile ocupate — infuzează scrierile sale cu o dimensiune etică profundă. The Slaughterman's Daughter este al treilea său roman, lucrare care i-a adus premii prestigioase precum Agnon Prize și Ramat Gan Prize, confirmându-l ca o voce majoră a literaturii israeliene contemporane. În prezent, locuiește cu familia sa în Tel Aviv.

Descriere scurtă

"Occasionally a book comes along so fresh, strange, and original that it seems peerless, utterly unprecedented. This is one of those books."
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)An irresistible, picaresque tale of two Jewish sisters in late-nineteenth-century Russia, The Slaughterman's Daughter is filled with "boundless imagination and a vibrant style" (David Grossman), as well as enough intrigue and misadventure to stupefy the Coen brothers. With 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, ZviMeir, has run off to Minsk, abandoning her and their two children. As 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. Yaniv 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. The Slaughterman's Daughter is a rollicking and unforgettable work of fiction.

Notă biografică

YANIV ICZKOVITS is the author of Pulse, Adam and Sophie, and Wittgenstein's Ethical Thought. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University and was a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Tel Aviv. The Slaughterman's Daughter was awarded the Ramat Gan Prize and the Agnon Prize; it was also short-listed for the Sapir Prize. Iczkovits lives with his family in Tel Aviv. ORR SCHARF teaches cultural studies and translation theory at the University of Haifa. He is the author of Thinking in Translation: Scripture and Redemption in the Thought of Franz Rosenzweig. The Slaughterman's Daughter is his first literary translation

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"Boundless imagination and a vibrant style . . . a heroine of unforgettable grit" DAVID GROSSMAN
"A story of great beauty and surprise" GARY SHTEYNGART

The 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 - 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 their 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 Minsk, which has left Colonel Piotr Novak, head of the Russian secret police, scratching his head. Surely a crime like that could have nothing to do with Fanny Keismann, however the people of Motal might mutter about her reputation as a vilde chaya, a wild animal . . .
Surely not.
Translated from the Hebrew by Orr Scharf

Recenzii

With boundless imagination and a vibrant style, Yaniv Iczkovits creates a colorful 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
A story of great beauty and surprise. A necessary antidote for our times
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's 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
Totally compulsive reading
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
"An extraordinarily vivid portrayal of life in the Pale of Settlement, an area of the pre-revolutionary Russian Empire where Jews were allowed, begrudgingly, to live"
A narrative full of invention and surprises . . . Iczkovits mixes real history, fable and the products of his imagination into an intoxicating, thoroughly enjoyable brew
Yaniv Iczkovits' brilliant, sweeping novel is set in czarist Russia during the late nineteenth century, but feels highly relevant and resonant today . . . filled with exquisitely drawn characters . . . bold and provocative
A born storyteller . . . Iczkovits is clearly a talent to watch and The Slaughterman's Daughter is the place to start
Echoes of Russian and Yiddish literature resound in this delightful picaresque, but you need not hear them to enjoy it . . . Technicolour characters, pathos and humour are all wonderfully captured in a nimble translation from the Hebrew
It's a genuine pleasure to see all of the different strands of the story come together in the final act. If the Coen brothers ever ventured beyond the United States for their films, they would find ample material in this novel . . . An ultimately hopeful search for small comforts and a modicum of justice in an absurd and immoral world
Approaches history in a fabulist style reminiscent of Sholem Aleichem and his disciples . . . 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. I appreciated the pace . . . Today it would be a quick drive to Minsk; once upon a time the trip was the stuff of epics
Occasionally a book comes along so fresh, strange, and original that it seems peerless, utterly unprecedented. This is one of those books. Iczkovits is a superb talent, and this novel is a resounding success
What begins as a small family drama explodes in every possible direction in its virtuosity
An adventure story with few like it in modern Hebrew literature . . . a simply outstanding novel
A major novel that zigzags between characters and plots, between history and psychology, rooted in a brilliant narrative
We should keep an eye on Iczkovits. He is an amazing talent who will be talked about for a long time to come