The Master Butchers Singing Club

Name: The Master Butchers Singing Club
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Louise Erdrich
ISBN: 9780060797959

Author: Louise Erdrich

Narrator: Louise Erdrich

Unabridged: 16 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 12/07/2004

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Indigenous, Nonfiction, Literary Collections

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 Louise Erdrich

Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is the award-winning author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children’s books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anika on December 20, 2009

This book was incredibly frustrating. Erdrich has plenty of skill setting up the beginning of a story - she does it about twelve times - but never manages to actually stay with any particular arc. Stories and characters are established just enough to whet your interest, and then she just wanders to......more

Goodreads review by Elaine on January 22, 2016

This is a lumpy weird passionate sweep of a novel. There was lots that irked me - pacing that speeded up and then slowed way way down and the central passion seems hollow (and mostly happens offstage) - but I read compulsively nonetheless. Indeed, the book's real passions are the all the non-couple......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on March 15, 2025

This is the fourth book by Louise Erdrich that I've read. I loved the Beet Queen, and I wanted to read more of Erdrich's works. I realize I like her books more when more action is happening. This one was odd in that it was both very slow and moved fairly fast. I guess it spans 1918 to 1954, so there......more

Goodreads review by Patricia on October 07, 2018

Yes, I finally finished this book and have decided this writer is just not for me. I tried another of her books and could not get through it. This one had a different subject and I wanted to try it. I did read the whole book but it was a trial. The main character Delphine was very likeable and I enj......more