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Accordion crimes

A tale of immigrants centered on an accordion brought to America in the 1880s. After its Italian owner is murdered, the instrument passes into the hands of other ethnic groups--German, French-Canadian, Mexican, Polish, Norwegian--and the novel describes their ceremonies, dreams and hates. By the author of The Shipping News.

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  • "Accordeon misdaden"
  • "Grüne Akkordeon"
  • "Accordion crimes"@he
  • "Accordion crimes"@it

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  • "In 1890 in Sicily, an accordion maker and his eleven-year-old son, carrying little more than his finest button accordion, begin their voyage to the teeming, violent port of New Orleans. Within a year, the accordion maker is murdered, but his instrument carries into another community of immigrants founding a new town in Iowa.--"
  • "A tale of immigrants centered on an accordion brought to America in the 1880s. After its Italian owner is murdered, the instrument passes into the hands of other ethnic groups--German, French-Canadian, Mexican, Polish, Norwegian--and the novel describes their ceremonies, dreams and hates. By the author of The Shipping News."@en
  • "A tale of immigrants centered on an accordion brought to America in the 1880s. After its Italian owner is murdered, the instrument passes into the hands of other ethnic groups--German, French-Canadian, Mexican, Polish, Norwegian--and the novel describes their ceremonies, dreams and hates. By the author of The Shipping News."
  • "E. Annie Proulx's Accordion CrimesAccordion Crimes a stunning novel, exhilarating in its scope and originality."@en
  • "1890 en Sicile. Un fabricant d'accordéons met la touche finale à sa plus belle pièce. Rêvant d'ouvrir un magasin de musique aux Etats-Unis, il s'embarque avec son fils pour la Nouvelle-Orléans, où il est assassiné peu de temps après. L'instrument va alors passer de main en main, et chaque fois, le nouveau propriétaire meurt, et l'accordéon reprend son périple à travers l'Amérique."
  • "The third novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Shipping News', 'Accordion Crimes' spans generations, continents and a century and confirms the hallucinatory power of Proulx's writing. 'Accordion Crimes' is a masterpiece of story-telling that spans a century and a continent. It opens in 1890 in Sicily, when an accordion-maker and his son, carrying little more than his finest button accordion, begin their voyage to the teeming, violent port of New Orleans. Within a year, the accordion-maker is murdered by an anti-Italian lynch mob, but his instrument carries the novel into another community of immigrants: German-Americans founding a new town in South Dakota. Moving from South Dakota to Texas, from Montana to Maine, the nine instantly compelling and intricately connected sections of the novel illuminate the lives of the founders of a nation, descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Germans, Irish, Scots and Franco-Canadians. Through the music of the accordion they express their fantasies, sorrows and exuberance."@en
  • "Accordion Crimes opens in 1890 in Sicily as an accordion maker completes his finest instrument - nineteen polished bone buttons, sleek lacquer - and dreams of owning a music store in America. He and his eleven-year-old son, carrying little more than the green accordion, voyage to the teeming, violent port of New Orleans. Within a year, the accordion maker is murdered by an anti-Italian lynching mob, but his instrument carries Proulx's story into another community of immigrants, the German Americans, founding a town in Iowa. Again, the accordion is witness to an astonishing array of tales as Beutle, Messermacher, Loats and their families make and lose fortunes in the new land."
  • "A button accordion brought to New Orleans in 1890 by a Sicilian immigrant finds its way into the lives, dreams, fantasies, sorrows, and intimacies of men and women of other immigrant groups in South Dakota, Texas, Montana, Maine and elsewhere."@en
  • "In 1890 Sicily, an accordion maker builds his finest accordion and then follows his dream to America where the he is killed in New Orleans. The accordion represents a link to the past in the lives of various immigrants who carry it in their search for a better life."
  • "Epic saga spanning a century and a continent, beginning with the journey of an accordian maker and his son to New Orleans. From South Dakota to Texas, from Montana to Maine the lives of the founders of a nation are illuminated. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The shipping news."
  • "Een oude accordeon is eigendom geweest van allerlei immigranten, die met hun cultuur en muziek langzaam aan opgaan in de Amerikaanse smeltkroes."

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Translations"
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Musical fiction"
  • "Musical fiction"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Nouvelles américaines"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "fiction"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"

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  • "Das grüne Akkordeon : Roman"
  • "Egklēmata me akornteon : mythistorēma"
  • "Los crímenes del acordeón"@es
  • "Accordion crimes : a novel"
  • "Accordion crimes : [a novel]"
  • "Pishʻe aḳordyon"
  • "Accordeon misdaden"
  • "Grekhi akkordeona"
  • "Accordion crimes"@en
  • "Accordion crimes"
  • "Les crimes de l'accordéon : roman"
  • "Los Crímenes del acordeón"
  • "Accordion crimes (sound recording)"
  • "Accordeonmisdaden"
  • "פשעי אקורדיון"
  • "Akordeonowe zbrodnie"@pl
  • "Vaarallinen harmonikka"
  • "Vaarallinen harmonikka"@fi
  • "Das grüne Akkordeon Roman"
  • "Грехи аккордеона"
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "Accordian crimes"@en
  • "Accordian crimes"
  • "Akordeonowe zbrodnie"
  • "Crimini della fisarmonica"
  • "Accordion Crimes"@en
  • "Accordion Crimes"
  • "Das Grüne Akkordeon : Roman"
  • "Accordian Crimes"@en
  • "Accordian Crimes"
  • "I crimini della fisarmonica"@it
  • "I crimini della fisarmonica"
  • "Das Grune akkordeon"

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