Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend, killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious knife set, Fidelis sets out for America. In Argus, North Dakota, he builds a business, a home for his family—which includes Eva and four sons—and a singing club consisting of the best voices in town. When the Old World meets the New—in the person of Delphine Watzka—the great adventure of Fidelis's life begins. Delphine meets Eva and is enchanted. She meets Fidelis, and the ground trembles. These momentous encounters will determine the course of Delphine's life, and the trajectory of this brilliant novel.
The Master Butchers Singing Club
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“Emotionally resonant.” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times )
“Miraculous …[Erdrich is] at the peak of powers as a writer … Her work is as melodious as ever.” (Boston Globe )
“An enrapturing plunge into the depths of the human heart.” (Washington Post Book World )
“[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 )
“[A] magnificent tale … poignant in the mysteries it evokes and patient with the questions is leaves unanswered.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review )
“A substantial, beautifully composed, confident work of art … both expansive in its reach and intimate in its intense focus.” (O magazine )
“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 )
“Miraculous …[Erdrich is] at the peak of powers as a writer … Her work is as melodious as ever.” (Boston Globe )
“An enrapturing plunge into the depths of the human heart.” (Washington Post Book World )
“[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 )
“[A] magnificent tale … poignant in the mysteries it evokes and patient with the questions is leaves unanswered.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review )
“A substantial, beautifully composed, confident work of art … both expansive in its reach and intimate in its intense focus.” (O magazine )
“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 )
Biographie de l'auteur
Louise Erdrich lives with her family in Minnesota and is the owner of Birchbark Books, an independent bookstore. Ms. Erdrich is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, and this story—which will, in the end, span one hundred years in the life of an Ojibwe woman—was inspired when Ms. Erdrich and her mother, Rita Gourneau Erdrich, were researching their own family history. Chickadee begins a new part of the story that started with The Birchbark House, a National Book Award finalist; The Game of Silence, winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction; and the acclaimed The Porcupine Year.
Ms. Erdrich is also the bestselling author of many critically acclaimed novels for adults, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves and National Book Award finalist The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse. She is also the author of the picture book Grandmother's Pigeon, illustrated by Jim LaMarche.
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étrange livre, le tout un peu détaché, décousu, les personnages sont brumeux, du coup il est difficile de s'attacher... Donne néanmoins, à travers quelques personnages, une bonne image de l'immigration Allemande aux US et de leurs position très délicate pendant la 2eme guerre. Et parfois, dans les petites histoires détachés, on est quand même émue.
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12 mai 2003
Par Roe P. Wiles
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No Spoilers Present For those who haven't read the novel:
Finished The Master Butchers Singing Club 5+ by Louise Erdrich and it bowled me over, promising to be my favorite selection for the year in any genre. Just such a fine reading experience! Once in a while, a book just commands one's attention and is completely gratifying.
I read every word on each page very slowly to savor the language, characters and plot. Drawn in from the onset, the readers' involvement continues to increase at a breakneck pace, even though we slow down to enjoy the nearly perfect prose and comprehend the mental set and daily lives and tasks of our characters between the lines, and their places in the community. Although not 100 percent linear, and episodic in nature, there is no confusion at all for the reader, who is torn between knowing more 'later' or enjoying the 'now'.
The novel is about a young German butcher, Fidelis, who emigrates to the USA after serving in WWI, carrying only a suitcase full of sausages and a perfect set of carving knives. He ends up in Argus, North Dakota, where he establishes his business. The dynamic of Argus itself becomes a character. The book covers only three decades, but feels like an awesomely enduring saga of the complexities of life, over time. In addition to Fidelis... Delphine (it remains her story), Cyprian, Clarissa, Roy, and especially Eva and her boys are characters who remain embedded in the on-deck circle, and each is integral to the fabric of the novel. The Master Butchers Singing Club also incorporates mayhem, madness, murder, and intrigue. I have few words to convey the depth of my experience while reading this novel, so what follows is an excerpt from the book jacket:
>>TMBSC unfolds its themes of love and death, lightness and gravity...with the eloquent prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling that only a masterful writer can offer. Creating a fictional world filled with memorable characters who grapple with the worst and best impulses of human nature is an impressive achievement, but doing so with the compassion and intelligence, lyrical style and wit, of Louise Erdrich is a gift to readers everywhere.<<
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27 juillet 2004
Par Stephen Aronoff
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The Master Butchers Singing Club is not much about master butchers or really about their singing, but rather uses this title as a taking off point to tell a story about transplanted people living in the northern midwest of America.
Fidelis, a German, emigrating to America between the two world wars works so hard to keep his family afloat, that he does not have the time or energy to reflect or even interact upon his wife and sons. They do their jobs with him, but his inner life is all but invisible.
Delphine, on the other hand, who befriends Fidelis' wife, Eva...cares for her as she is dying...and later marries Fidelis herself, has a strong inner life. She worries about Fidelis' boys as each of them experiences life's trials, she agonizes about her own father, Roy, the town drunk, drifts in and finally out of a loveless relationship with Cyprian, a circus performer who has taught her balance ( a metaphor for her being able to deal with her future problems), and works her way through additional relationships with her best friend, Clarisse and with Mazarine, who is in love with one of Fidelis' sons.
This inner life/outer life differential between the two main characters is explored in poetic detail by Loiuse Erdrich in this very fine novel.
Bring your patience when your read this book...it is sometime languid and wordy...but it is well worth the effort.
It is beautifully written and it explores an important part of
of our country which is rarely presented.
Fidelis, a German, emigrating to America between the two world wars works so hard to keep his family afloat, that he does not have the time or energy to reflect or even interact upon his wife and sons. They do their jobs with him, but his inner life is all but invisible.
Delphine, on the other hand, who befriends Fidelis' wife, Eva...cares for her as she is dying...and later marries Fidelis herself, has a strong inner life. She worries about Fidelis' boys as each of them experiences life's trials, she agonizes about her own father, Roy, the town drunk, drifts in and finally out of a loveless relationship with Cyprian, a circus performer who has taught her balance ( a metaphor for her being able to deal with her future problems), and works her way through additional relationships with her best friend, Clarisse and with Mazarine, who is in love with one of Fidelis' sons.
This inner life/outer life differential between the two main characters is explored in poetic detail by Loiuse Erdrich in this very fine novel.
Bring your patience when your read this book...it is sometime languid and wordy...but it is well worth the effort.
It is beautifully written and it explores an important part of
of our country which is rarely presented.
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A Survivor in the true sense
27 mars 2003
Par Patricia Kramer
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As soon as I finished this book, I started over on the first page to scan through the story and stopped to re-read sections to fully savor the connections and events over again.
Delphine is a character I will remember for a long time. She is a true survivor, "No matter what they might have heard at the lumberyard, she wanted to give the impression of an extremely respectable woman, but not one who could not afford, say, a hat with a little green feather. A plain person. Trustworthy. Not a person who had a murderer for a best friend or who'd lived with a vaudeville acrobat or who had a gabby old souse for a father. Delphine, she wanted people to say of her, she's awfully quick, but she's solid and reliable."
The account of Eva and Delphine in the night garden drinking beer while they set the beer out to catch slugs is tender and funny and so full of life and death that it alone makes the book a treasure to read.
I checked this book out of the library but I am going to order it. I want to keep these characters around, not return them.
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