The Slaughterman’s Daughter, Hebrew title: Tikkun Ahar Hatzot (An After Midnight Prayer, Hebrew: תיקון אחר חצות), is an “epic historical adventure novel” written in a “fabulist style” about a Jewish community in a provincial Belarusian town which “takes the reader through the corridors of power, people and history of 19th century Belarus".

Fanny Keismann, a daughter of the shochet of a Belarusian shtetl of Motal, a devoted wife, mother of five, and celebrated cheese-maker, leaves her home.

It turns out that she set out to find her brother-in-law, who left his family, in order to her a writ of divorce, so that her older sister could move on.

Small industry started to develop in Motal at the end of the 19th century with the establishment of two candle workshops, three smithies, a mill, and a butter factory.

During World War II the area was occupied by Nazi forces that perpetrated mass executions of local Jews.