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The Beet Queen

On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. Orphaned in a most peculiar way, Karl and Mary look for refuge in their mother's sister, Fritzie, who runs a butcher shop with her husband.

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  • "On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. Orphaned in a most peculiar way, Karl and Mary look for refuge in their mother's sister, Fritzie, who runs a butcher shop with her husband."@en
  • "" ... a vibrant tale of abandonment and sexual obsession, jealousy and unstinting love. On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. Orphaned in a most peculiar way, Karl and Mary look for refuge to their mother's sister Fritzie, who, with husband Pete, runs a butcher shop. So begins an exhilarating forty-year saga brimming with unforgettable characters: ordinary Mary, who causes a miracle; seductive Karl, who lacks Mary's gift for survival; Sita, their lovely, disturbed, ambitious cousin; Wallace Pfef, a town leader bearing a lonely secret; Celestine James, a mixed-blood Chippewa, and her daughter, Dot. Theirs is a story grounded in the tenacity of relationships, the magic of natural events, and the unending mystery of the human condition."--Back cover."@en
  • "Het leven op het Amerikaanse platteland van twee wezen uit een hecht verbonden familie."
  • "In the early 1930s, Karl and his sister Mary Adare, arrive by boxcar in Argus, a small off-reservation town in North Dakota. Orphaned, they look to their mother's sister Fritzie and her husband for refuge."@en
  • "In the early 1930s, Karl and his sister Mary Adare, arrive by boxcar in Argus, a small off-reservation town in North Dakota. Orphaned, they look to their mother's sister Fritzie and her husband for refuge."
  • "Chronique familiale sur quarante ans (de 1932 à 1972) où nous suivons trois orphelins dans leur destinée. Tout réside dans le ton particulier qui fournit à ce roman une dimension d'authenticité et de sensibilité remarquable."
  • "" ... a vibrant tale of abandonment and sexual obsession, jealousy and unstinting love. On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. Orphaned in a most peculiar way, Karl and Mary look for refuge to their mother's sister Fritzie, who, with husband Pete, runs a butcher shop. So begins an exhilarating forty-year saga brimming with unforgettable characters: ordinary Mary, who causes a miracle; seductive Karl, who lacks Mary's gift for survival; Sita, their lovely, disturbed, ambitious cousin; Wallace Pfef, a town leader bearing a lonely secret; Celestine James, a mixed-blood Chippewa, and her daughter, Dot. Theirs is a story grounded in the tenacity of relationships, the magic of natural events, and the unending mystery of the human condition.""
  • "Orphaned fourteen-year-old Carl and his eleven-year-old sister, Mary, travel to Argus, North Dakota, to live with their mother's sister, in this tale of abandonment, sexual obsession, jealousy and unstinting love."@en

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"

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  • "The Beet Queen : a novel"
  • "La Reina de la remolacha"
  • "˜Dieœ Rübenkönigin Roman"
  • "De suikerbietenkoningin"
  • "The Beet Queen"
  • "The Beet Queen"@en
  • "Die Rübenkönigin : Roman"
  • "The beet queen : a novel"@en
  • "The beet queen : a novel"
  • "The beet queen a novel by"
  • "Die Rübenkönigin"
  • "The beet queen"
  • "The beet queen"@en
  • "The Beet queen : a novel"@en
  • "The Beet queen : a novel"
  • "Die Rübenkönigin Roman"
  • "Juurikaskuningatar"@fi
  • "Himmelflugt"@da
  • "La branche cassée : roman"
  • "La Reina de la remolatxa"@ca
  • "La reina de la remolatxa"
  • "The beet queen : [excerpt in the Paris review]"@en
  • "La reina de la remolacha"@es
  • "La reina de la remolacha"
  • "The Beet queen"
  • "La branche cassée"

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