Yaniv 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.
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
A story of great beauty and surprise. A necessary antidote
for our times -- Gary Shteyngart
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 -- George Szirtes
Totally compulsive reading -- Rosemary Sullivan
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, author of The Book of Dirt
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 *
In The Slaughterman's Daughter, Iczkovits presents an
original take on the historical novel which recreates - with
a shrewd but affectionate look back at a lost world - Jewish
life in the Russian empire at the end of the nineteenth century.
The story's plot, characters, narrative style and the narrator's
perspective are characterized by historical realism but also an
element of fantasy. It is also worth noting the novel's brilliant
insights, its winning humour, and especially the highly effective
and readable blend of our vibrant, supple modern Hebrew and a
distant, forgotten way of life. This is a novel of
unquestionable uniqueness -- Dr. David Weinfeld, Dr. Shira
Stav, Bilhah ben Eliyahu * Judges' Committee of the Agnon Prize
*
This is a perfect, if rare, example of a contemporary Israeli
narrative that is in living dialogue with the literary and
historical past, drawing on it and constructing an utterly
original, independent artistic structure on its foundations ...
Iczkovits has created a sensual, richly vibrant Jewish world
devoid of stereotypes, with flesh-and-blood characters to whom
nothing human is foreign. There is no doubt. Iczkovits has
pulled this off with wondrous success, yielding a virtuosic
novel -- Professor Avner Holzman, Maya Sela, Amir Lev, Eldad
Ziv, Netta Gurevitch * Judges' Committee of the Ramat Gan Prizze
for Literary Excellence *
We should keep an eye on Iczkovits. He is an amazing talent
who will be talked about for a long time to come -- Dorit Rabinyan
* Time Out, on ADAM AND SOPHIE *
A major, dizzying novel * Haaretz, on ADAM AND SOPHIE *
The literary expectations raised by Yaniv Iczkovits' first novel
have now been fulfilled in his second -- Yedioth Ahronoth, on ADAM
AND SOPHIE
Iczkovits' talent is evident * Maariv, on ADAM AND SOPHIE *
"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" * The Times *
A narrative full of invention and surprises . . . Iczkovits
mixes real history, fable and the products of his imagination into
an intoxicating, thoroughly enjoyable brew * Sunday Times
*
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 * TLS *
A born storyteller . . . Iczkovits is clearly a talent to
watch and The Slaughterman's Daughter is the place to
start -- David Herman * Jewish Chronicle *
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 * Kirkus Reviews (starred
review) *
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