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Fanny Kajsman hat genug. Ihr nutzloser Schwager ist nach Minsk abgehauen und hat ihre Schwester im Schtetl zurückgelassen. Kurzerhand trifft Fanny eine skandalöse Entscheidung: Sie wird ihren Schwager eigenhändig zurückholen. Bewaffnet mit einem Schlachtermesser und einer gehörigen Portion Starrsinn bricht sie auf, aber die Straßen des Russischen Kaiserreichs sind gefährlich. Als sich ihr der stumme Fährmann Cicek Berschow anschließt, ist sie...

An enthralling, picaresque tale of two Jewish sisters in late nineteenth-century Russia, filled with "boundless imagination, wit, and panache" (David Grossman), and enough intrigue and misadventure to stupefy the Cohen brothers. With her reputation as a vilde chaya, a wild beast, Fanny Keismann isn't like the other women in her shtetl-certainly not her obedient and anxiety-ridden sister, Mende, whose "philosopher" of a husband, Zvi-Meir, has r...

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 ...

Yaniv Iczkovits, born in 1975, has published three novels (the first was awarded Haaretz's debut novel prize and the second the Prime Minister's Prize) His third novel, The Slaughterman's Daughter, was awarded the Agnon Prize in 2015, the first time the prize has been granted in ten years. Iczkovits won the Ramat Gan Prize for Literary Excellence and was shortlisted for the Sapir Prize. He has a PhD in philosophy from Columbia University, and ...

An epic historical adventure novel - 'Fiddler on the Roof' with a startling dash of Tarantino - set in the Pale of Settlement during the final years of the Russian Empire.