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   Jan 1, 2003 · 25,458 ratings2,192 reviews. What happens when a trained killer discovers, in the aftermath of war, that his true vocation is love? Having survived the killing fields of World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns home to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend, killed in action.

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   Feb 7, 2003 · BOOK REVIEW. HONEYSUCKLE & PAIN. Mark Z. Danielewski. The tensions between stoical endurance and the frailty of human connection, as delineated in Erdrich’s almost unimaginably rich eighth novel: a panoramic exploration of “a world where butchers sing like angels.”.

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   Jan 22, 2011 · The Master Butchers Singing Club. by Louise Erdrich. It is impossible to escape the past. There are a hundred quiet reminders of this in Louise Erdrich's lyrical new novel, THE MASTER BUTCHERS SINGING CLUB: the weight of the butcher knives that help pay Fidelis's way to America; the stain that cannot be scrubbed out of the bed he shares with ...

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   Feb 1, 2003 · Having survived the killing fields of World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns home to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend who was killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious set of knives, Fidelis sets out for America, getting as far as North Dakota, where he builds a ...

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   The Master Butchers Singing Club is a 2003 novel by American author Louise Erdrich. It follows the lives of German immigrants Fidelis Waldvogel and his family, as well as Delphine Watzka and her partner Cyprian, as they adjust in their separate lives in the small town of Argus, North Dakota.

   • Author: Louise Erdrich

   • Publish Year: 2003

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   Oct 4, 2009 · Her latest, The Master Butchers Singing Club, bears only traces of that heritage, but its appeal stems from the same quality that makes her novels set on the Chippewa reservation so good.

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   What is the Master Butcher's singing club?

   • The master butcher's singing club of the title doesn't really figure into this book at all. Fidelis, the master butcher in question, does start a singing group in his new home of Argus, North Dakota, that's meant to reflect the master butcher's singing club he was a part of back in Germany, as a place where outside grievances can be set aside.

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   Is the Master Butchers singing club based on a true story?

   • Much of The Master Butchers Singing Club revolves around the German American cultural tradition, which is part of Erdrich's personal heritage, though she is best known as a Native American novelist.

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   Does Argus have a singing club?

   • In Germany the singing club includes only master butchers as tradition dictates. However, in Argus there are only two butchers so it is necessary for Fidelis to extend the tradition to the rest of the town males. Erdrich uses some of her personal family history and background as source for The Master Butcher's Singing Club.

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   Why did Fidelis start the Master Butcher's singing club?

   • Their paths crossed with local characters with which they form strong bonds, when Fidelis started the master butcher's singing club. It became the story of women enduring tough challenges while being involved in different forms of relationships with men and among themselves.

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   Aug 29, 2012 · The Master Butchers Singing Club. by Louise Erdrich. 1. "Ever since he was a child, when sorrow had come down upon him, he'd breathed lightly and gone motionless. As a young soldier, he'd known from the first that in his talent for stillness lay the key to his survival." (p.