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Jan 1, 2003 · Louise Erdrich. 4.06. 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 · 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.”
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 ...
Feb 1, 2003 · A provocative new novel about a teenage girl who claims to see the Virgin Mary, by the bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars. We have 4 read-alikes for The Master Butchers Singing Club, but non-members are limited to two results. To see the complete list of this book's read-alikes, you need to be a member.
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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....
Unlike many of her other books that focus on indigenous people and culture, The Master Butchers Singing Club instead focuses on a German immigrant family post World War I who settle in North Dakota and the community that builds up around them.
The problem of the novel is that it is full of writing, full of plot, with each moment carefully and expertly done, but overwhelming. We smell, hear and taste the North Dakota of Erdrich's...
