Louise Erdrich

The Master Butchers Singing Club

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Nach dem 1. Weltkrieg beschließt Fleischermeister Waldvogel, sein deutsches Dörfchen zu verlassen und in Amerika sein Glück zu machen. Er gründet ein Geschäft, eine Familie und einen Gesangverein. Doch dann begegnet er Delphine Watzka, und sein amerikanisches Abenteuer beginnt erst...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins UK
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 137mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 314g
• ISBN-13: 9780060837051
• ISBN-10: 0060837055
• Artikelnr.: 20826762

Autorenporträt

Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is the author of many novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction. Love Medicine and LaRose received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore. Her most recent book, The Night Watchman, won the Pulitzer Prize. A ghost lives in her creaky old house.

Rezensionen

"A substantial, beautifully composed, confident work of art ... both expansive in its reach and intimate in its intense focus." - O magazine

"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