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- Now, in ''The Master Butchers Singing Club,'' she turns to the other side of her ancestry, tracing the fortunes of a fictional German immigrant named Fidelis Waldvogel, who settles in Argus, raises four sons with his German wife and eventually marries a local Argus girl of mysterious parentage.
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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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The story unfolds in the aftermath of World War I, following the life of Fidelis Waldvogel, a German soldier who emigrates to the United States. Fidelis settles in Argus, where he establishes a successful butcher shop and eventually marries the enigmatic Eva, a vaudeville performer.
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...
- Bonnie Greer
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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Feb 9, 2003 · With her eighth novel, ''The Master Butchers Singing Club,'' Erdrich has stayed on her tried-and-true home turf -- the book is set, like several of its predecessors, in the fictional town...
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.
