| Accordion Crimes | |
| Border: | yes |
| Author: | E. Annie Proulx |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Scribner |
| Release Date: | 1996 |
| Media Type: | |
| Isbn: | 0-684-83154-6 |
| Oclc: | 37039967 |
Accordion Crimes is a 1996 novel by American writer E. Annie Proulx.[1] It followed her Pulitzer Prize-winning 1993 work The Shipping News and was shortlisted for the 1997 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction.[2]
The novel begins in the nineteenth century, as a Sicilian accordion-maker comes to the United States in search of better opportunities.[3] He is shot by an anti-Italian lynch mob, and his accordion falls into the hands of several other owners, many of whom meet painful ends themselves. The accordion traverses a continent, traveling to Louisiana, Iowa, Texas, Maine, Illinois, Montana, and Mississippi.
Accordion Crimes inspired a play called Vaarallinen Harmonikka (Dangerous Accordion) in Finland. Writer Seppo Parkkinen and director Fiikka Forsman adapted the novel for the Turku City Theatre. The play premiered on September 9, 2011.