Robert Amiss Mysteries: The Master Butchers Singing Club Lib/E (CD-Audio)

from busymom51

A densely packed novel spanning the miles and years from post WWI Germany to North Dakota just after WWII. Rich characters with stories of desperation, horror and ultimately deep connections of love and duty. Description is this book's strongest suit, bringing us face to face with the sights, sou...

from Olivermagnus

''The Master Butchers Singing Club,'' details the 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. Fidelis was a German sniper who watched his best f...

from PinkPandaParade

This being the fifth book I've read from the prolific Louise Erdrich, I was at first both disappointed and intrigued by her break from her normal Ojibwe dynasty that make up the residents of a fictional North Dakota town known as Argus. After the first few pages, though, I pleasantly discovered E...

from pajarita

Louise Erdrich likes to sneak up behind us and surprise us with what we already know but are trying to forget. Death and life are the same. Our own lives lead us towards our own deaths as we live from the proteins that we harvest from those other living creatures killed for our nourishment. And w...

from kambrogi

I was dazzled by this book. Louise Erdrich tells a tale of a German immigrant family landing in a small North Dakota town. At the heart of the tale is Delphine Watzka, a local resident and daughter of the town drunk, and her convoluted relationship with the immigrants and other quirky residents o...