by Sara Gruen · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781565125605
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«Water for Elephants» is the historical novel by Sara Gruen, published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill in paperback (352 pages, in English).
Jacob Jankowski, now in his nineties, recalls his youth during the Great Depression, when, orphaned and adrift, he boards a circus train of the Benzini Brothers. A nearly graduated veterinary student, he meets Marlena, an equestrian star married to the brutal August, and Rosie, an apparently untamable elephant.
The novel, in English, was originally published in 2006 and this paperback edition appeared in 2007. It received the Book Sense Book of the Year Award and the ALA Alex Award.
For readers of historical and romantic fiction and reading groups, and for anyone seeking a circus story set in the Great Depression.
Sara Gruen is a Canadian-American author. She is a 2007 recipient of the Alex Award for young adult literature.
