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New Page 1 The runaway international bestseller by “the must-read author of summer” (Ottawa Citizen) Orphaned and penniless at the height of the Depression, Jacob Jankowski escapes everything he knows by jumping on a passing train—and inadvertently runs away with the circus. So begins Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen’s darkly beautiful tale about the characters who inhabit the less-than-greatest show on earth. Jacob finds a place tending the circus animals, including a seemingly untrainable elephant named Rosie. He also comes to know Marlena, the star of the equestrian act—and wife of August, a charismatic but cruel animal trainer. Caught between his love for Marlena and his need to belong in the crazy family of travelling performers, Jacob is freed only by a murderous secret that will bring the big top down. Water for Elephants is an enchanting page-turner, the kind of book that creates a world that engulfs you from the first page to the last. A national bestseller in Canada and a New York Times bestseller in the United States, this is a book destined to become a beloved fiction classic.
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Water For Elephants, Sara Gruen
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 2007
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- Titre
- Water For Elephants
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Sara Gruen
- Éditeur
- HarperCollins
- Publié
- 2007
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 355
- ISBN10
- 0006391559
- ISBN13
- 9780006391555
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Romans d'amour, La nature, Romans historiques, Animaux, Amour, Littérature contemporaine, Amitié, Romance contemporaine, États-Unis, Littérature américaine, 20e siècle, Adapté au cinéma, Violence, Amérique, Été, Littérature canadienne, Cirque, Années 1930, Éléphants, Différence d'âge entre partenaires
- Première publication
- 2006
- Titre original
- Water for Elephants
- Évaluation
- 4,1 sur 5
- Description
- New Page 1 The runaway international bestseller by “the must-read author of summer” (Ottawa Citizen) Orphaned and penniless at the height of the Depression, Jacob Jankowski escapes everything he knows by jumping on a passing train—and inadvertently runs away with the circus. So begins Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen’s darkly beautiful tale about the characters who inhabit the less-than-greatest show on earth. Jacob finds a place tending the circus animals, including a seemingly untrainable elephant named Rosie. He also comes to know Marlena, the star of the equestrian act—and wife of August, a charismatic but cruel animal trainer. Caught between his love for Marlena and his need to belong in the crazy family of travelling performers, Jacob is freed only by a murderous secret that will bring the big top down. Water for Elephants is an enchanting page-turner, the kind of book that creates a world that engulfs you from the first page to the last. A national bestseller in Canada and a New York Times bestseller in the United States, this is a book destined to become a beloved fiction classic.