The Master Butchers Singing Club

A Novel

From National Book Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author Louise Erdrich, a profound and enchanting new novel: a richly imagined world where butchers sing like angels.

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 characters.

Newburgh took me to a time and place I had never read about. very good characters to hear about. only one thing was that one of the characters was in developed enough. I would still highly recommend it someone reading this

Reader

The author read the book. Very boring. I ended up listening to at 1.25 speed.

Please try again

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

I hope this wonderful book will one day be re-recorded by a professional narrator and with a higher quality production. The book deserves so much more than this audio recording gives it. Although the author did better narrating her book than do many authors, she nevertheless is a bit tentative -- she sounds apologetic to be intruding in our lives with her story. It's too bad. The book is masterful. It's still worth the time to listen to it.

Beautifully landscaped characters

This book was a worthy read. The characters are so wonderful and rich. A great book to listen to for the whole family.

Excellent story, poor recording

As I said in my title, the story is excellent however the publisher did a horrible job recording the audio.