The Master Butchers Singing Club - Softcover

Erdrich, Louise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060837055 ISBN 13: 9780060837051

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2005

Synopsis

From National Book Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author Louise Erdrich, a profound and enchanting new novel: a richly imagined world "where butchers sing like angels."

Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend, killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious knife set, Fidelis sets out for America. In Argus, North Dakota, he builds a business, a home for his family--which includes Eva and four sons--and a singing club consisting of the best voices in town. When the Old World meets the New--in the person of Delphine Watzka--the great adventure of Fidelis's life begins. Delphine meets Eva and is enchanted. She meets Fidelis, and the ground trembles. These momentous encounters will determine the course of Delphine's life, and the trajectory of this brilliant novel.

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Review:

"A brilliantly layered look at war's costs ...Daring, graceful, comprehending and, rooted in the great plains, uniquely American."--Kansas City Star

"A substantial, beautifully composed, confident work of art ... both expansive in its reach and intimate in its intense focus."--O magazine

"Rich and vibrant ...Magnificent."--Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"An enrapturing plunge into the depths of the human heart."--Washington Post Book World

"Grand and generous fiction... Erdrich's most sweeping and ambitious yet."--BookPage

"Erdrich is an abundantly gifted storyteller, with a penchant for meticulous detail and tremendous empathy for her characters."--Charlotte Observer

"[THE MASTER BUTCHERS SINGING CLUB] is marked by moments of true creative genius, exquisitely imagined and masterfully drawn."--Richmond Times-Dispatch

"Delphine, the book's central figure, is Erdrich's most finely wrought and compelling character."--Denver Rocky Mountain News

"Louise Erdrich hits every note in THE MASTER BUTCHERS SINGING CLUB"--Vanity Fair

"THE MASTER BUTCHERS SINGING CLUB can surely be cast as the most wrenching and wise of Erdrich's nine novels."--Miami Herald

From the Back Cover:

Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend, killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious knife set, Fidelis sets out for America. In Argus, North Dakota, he builds a business, a home for his family--which includes Eva and four sons--and a singing club consisting of the best voices in town. When the Old World meets the New--in the person of Delphine Watzka--the great adventure of Fidelis's life begins. Delphine meets Eva and is enchanted. She meets Fidelis, and the ground trembles. These momentous encounters will determine the course of Delphine's life, and the trajectory of this brilliant novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0060837055
• ISBN 13: 9780060837051
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416