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

Iczkovits, Yaniv

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0857058282 ISBN 13 : 9780857058287

Editeur : MacLehose Press, 2020

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

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.

Orr Scharf is a translator of select literature and has a post-doctorate fellowship on the works of Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber and Walter Benjamin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: MacLehose Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0857058282
• ISBN 13: 9780857058287
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 528
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• Personne responsable: non disponible