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The Elephant's Journey: José Saramago

The Elephant's Journey: José Saramago

by Margaret Jull Costa (Translator), Margaret Jull Costa (Translator), Margaret Jull Costa (Translator), José Saramago (Author)

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Synopsis

For two years Solomon the elephant has lived in Lisbon. Now King Dom Joao III wishes to make him a wedding gift for a Hapsburg archduke in Vienna. The only way for Solomon to get to his new home is to walk. So begins a journey that will take the stalwart elephant across the dusty plains of Castile, over the sea to Genoa and up to northern Italy where, like Hannibal's elephants before him, he must cross the snowy Alps. Based on a true story, Saramago's tale is an enchanting mix of fact, fable and fantasy.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 02 Nov 2017
ISBN 10: 1784871796
ISBN 13: 9781784871796
Book Overview: A delightful historical fable based on a true story about an Indian elephant, who, in obedience to the absurd caprice of a sixteenth-century monarch, travels from Lisbon to Vienna

Media Reviews
It is extremely funny. Old Saramago writes with a masterfully light hand, and the humour is tender, a mockery so tempered by patience and pity that the sting is gone though the wit remains vital... a series of contained miracles of absurdity, quiet laughter rising out of a profound, resigned, affectionate wisdom -- Ursula K Le Guin * Guardian *
Jose Saramango wrote his final book with great panache -- Margaret Reynolds * The Times *
Here is a book as serious as it is charming; amid its ironies runs a sustained pleas for the subversive workings of the imagination: every elephant contains two elephants, one who learns what he's being taught and another who insists on ignoring it all . Thank goodness for that' * Guardian *
A novel of wit, warmth and wonder -- Yann Martel
Here he has seized the opportunity to turn an unlikely tale of a transalpine hike into something far larger even than its elephantine subject. -- Amanda Hopkinson * Independent *
Author Bio
Jose Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Saramago died in June 2010.