The Elephant's Journey by José Saramago
For two years Solomon the elephant has lived in Lisbon. 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.
It is extremely funnyOld 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 *
José 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 *
José 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 *
José 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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784871796 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784871796 |
| Title | The Elephant's Journey |
| Author | José Saramago |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2017-11-02 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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