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- It’s set mostly in her familiar fictional town of Argus, North Dakota (The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, 2001, etc.), the eventual destination of Fidelis Waldvogel, a WWI veteran who makes his way from Germany to America, where he prospers as a butcher and is later joined by his wife Eva and her young son (fathered by Fidelis’s best friend, fallen in battle).
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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
Jan 1, 2003 · 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 1, 2003 · What happens when a trained killer discovers 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 who was killed in action.
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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 ...
Aug 29, 2012 · Her own past, steeped in violence and despair, is a mystery to the townspeople. But she alone knows one secret--the truth about Delphine's origins that brings the novel to a startling and dazzling close. The Master Butchers Singing Club. by Louise Erdrich. Publication Date: August 29, 2012.
Aug 29, 2012 · The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich. Publication Date: August 29, 2012; Genres: Fiction; Paperback: 416 pages; Publisher: Harper Perennial; ISBN-10: 0060935332; ISBN-13: 9780060935337
Jan 22, 2011 · The story chronicles two very different women and their eventual intersection. The German Eva marries the butcher Fidelis after World War I. Fidelis, an expert sniper, was best friends with Eva's fiancé --- killed during the war --- and the two soon embark for a fresh start in America.
