The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Louise Erdich
• Title: The Master Butchers Singing Club
• Publisher: ‎ HarperCollins Publishers; First Edition (February 4, 2003)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover ‏w/Deckle Edge – 389 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0066209773
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0066209777
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.6 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.12 x 1.3 x 9.75 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good (minimal shelf wear)
• Edition: First Edition

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.

About the Author:

Louise Erdrich is one of the most gifted, prolific, and challenging of American novelists. Her fiction reflects aspects of her mixed heritage: German through her father, and French and Ojibwa through her mother. She is the author of many novels, the first of which, Love Medicine, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the last of which, The Round House, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2012. She lives in Minnesota.