num_pages: 384
description: 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. 350,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Accordion Crimes
titlecomplete: Accordion Crimes
genres: Fiction, Historical, American, Short Stories, The United States Of America, Music, Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 7379
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist
publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons