Dimensions
129 x 198 x 37mm
This is the story of a green, two-row button accordion. Its Sicilian maker has a vision of freedom and a future in La Merica. New Orleans brings an end to the musician's tale, but the accordion's story is only beginning.
Out in the midwest prairie German farmers grind out music. The accordion's music sounds in the Cajun bayoux and in a lonely Chicago tenement. A Tex-Mex virtuoso gives it a secret and colours of the hot Texan nights. A french-Canadian orphan struggles to master the instrument. A Basque sheepherder plays it in the mountains. A young girl rejects it for rap.
A restless nation comes alive in 'Accordion Crimes'. Utterly original, this is a novel which stays in the mind like an old song and tugs at the memory like a half-forgotten tune.
