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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 .
- Louise Erdrich
- 2003
In Argus, he finds a community of German immigrants and starts up a men’s choral group that sings songs from the old country. His hard work eventually pays off, and he is able to bring Eva and her son, Franz, to Argus to join him. They have three more children: Marcus, and twins Erich and Emil.
Early in the novel, Fidelis founds a singing club like the one he remembers in his German home, Ludwigsruhe, and the men begin weekly meetings to harmonize and socialize.
The protagonist of The Master Butcher’s Singing Club, Fidelis Waldvogel, has an origin story as a German-American which is quite likely shared by an inestimable number of those who call the vast lands encircling the Great Lakes home: on his way to his planned destination farther west, he simply ran out of money by the time he made it to the ...
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The Master Butcher's Singing Club is the kind of story that goes a long way toward explaining the American Dream, its disasters and its triumphs. Louise Erdrich, with the combined blood of the...
