The Slaughterman's Daughter: Winner of the Wingate Prize 2021

ISBN-13: 9780857058300 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 528 str.

Yaniv Iczkovits

Opis

An epic historical adventure novel set during the final years of the Russian Empire.

Recenzje

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 David Grossman

O autorze

Iczkovits, YanivYaniv Iczkovits is an award-winning author and was formerly a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Tel Aviv. His previous works include Pulse (2007), Adam and Sophie (2009) and Wittgenstein's Ethical Thought, based on his academic work, in 2012. In 2002, he was an inaugural signatory of the "combatants' letter", in which hundreds of Israeli soldiers affirmed their refusal to fight in the occupied territories, and he spent a month in military prison as a result. The Slaughterman's Daughter is his third novel and won the Ramat Gan Prize and the Agnon Prize in 2015, the first time the prize had been awarded in ten years. It was also shortlisted for the Sapir Prize. Yaniv Iczkovits previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University and lives with his family in Tel Aviv. Scharf, OrrOrr Scharf is a translator of select literature and has a post-doctorate fellowship on the works of Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber and Walter Benjamin.