The Master Butchers Singing Club: A Novel
Autor Louise Erdrichen Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 aug 2016
A powerful novel from one of the most celebrated American writers of her generation, and the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2012
In the quiet aftermath of WWI, Fidelis Waldvogel leaves behind his quiet German village, and sets out for America with his new wife Eva – the widow of his best friend, killed in action.
Finally settling in North Dakota, Fidelis works hard to build a business, a home for his family – and a singing club consisting of the best voices in town. But his adventure into the New World truly begins when he encounters Delphine Watzka, a local woman whose origins are a mystery, even to her. Delphine meets Eva and is enchanted. She meets Fidelis and the ground trembles…
Spanning the decades from the Great War to the fifties, 'The Master Butchers Singing Club' is a gift to readers everywhere, unfolding its themes of love and death, lightness and gravity with the eloquent prose, sly humour, and depth of feeling that only a masterful writer can offer.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0060837055
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperPerennial
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Recenzii
“An enrapturing plunge into the depths of the human heart.” — Washington Post Book World
“[A] magnificent tale...poignant in the mysteries it evokes and patient with the questions it leaves unanswered.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Miraculous …[Erdrich is] at the peak of powers as a writer … Her work is as melodious as ever.” — Boston Globe
“Emotionally resonant.” — Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
“[A] masterpiece… Erdrich never hits a false note.” — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“Louise Erdrich’s rousing and radiant new novel THE MASTER BUTCHERS SINGING CLUB is all kinds of lovely.” — Newsweek
“Each moment and its particulars dazzles … Fidelis and firm-bellied Delphine and the rest [of the characters] are masterworks.” — San Francisco Chronicle
“THE MASTER BUTCHERS SINGING CLUB can surely be cast as the most wrenching and wise of Erdrich’s nine novels.” — Miami Herald
“A brilliantly layered look at war’s costs …Daring, graceful, comprehending and, rooted in the great plains, uniquely American.” — Kansas City Star
“The Master Butchers Singing Club reveals on of our finest writers at the peak of her considerable powers.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Rich and vibrant …Magnificent.” — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“Lush and stark … employing vivid imagery, deft description and dialogue that flows … Stunning language.” — St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Not since Ricard Russo’s 2001 novel EMPIRE FALLS ... have I enjoyed the company of such memorable characters.” — Bob Minzesheimer, USA Today
“Louise Erdrich hits every note in THE MASTER BUTCHERS SINGING CLUB” — Vanity Fair
“Satisfying and life-affirming.” — Atlantic Monthly
“[THE MASTER BUTCHERS SINGING CLUB] is marked by moments of true creative genius, exquisitely imagined and masterfully drawn.” — Richmond Times-Dispatch
“Erdrich is an abundantly gifted storyteller, with a penchant for meticulous detail and tremendous empathy for her characters.” — Charlotte Observer
“Appropriately grim and thoughtful, THE MASTER BUTCHERS SINGING CLUB is also full of tenderness and life … Marvelous.” — Entertainment Weekly
“A thoughtful, artful, painfully moving addition to an ongoing American saga .. unimaginably rich.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Delphine, the book’s central figure, is Erdrich’s most finely wrought and compelling character.” — Denver Rocky Mountain News
“Grand and generous fiction… Erdrich’s most sweeping and ambitious yet.” — BookPage
Notă biografică
Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is the award-winning author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.