Description:
A comic Ôfolk playÕ with a classical music base, The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz follows a farm wife, a carpenter, a midwife, and a musician as they struggle to find fulfillment of their seemingly impossible wantings, drawing on the means at hand on a homestead removed from the stifling customs of the village.
Brief description:
Armin Wiebe's novels have been nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. His stories have been published in a number of literary magazines and anthologies.
Review Quotes:
Armin Wiebe does for GutenthalÉwhat Stephen Leacock did for Mariposa and its inhabitants. The results are similarly uproarious and touching, side-splittingly anarchic and wistful.Ó ÑCM Magazine