Agua para elefantes / Sara Gruen ; traducción de Manu Berástegui.
Other Titles: Water for elephants. Spanish
Author: Gruen, Sara.
Publisher: Doral, FL : Alfaguara, c2007.
ISBN: 9781603960069 (pbk.)
1603960066 (pbk.)
Description: 466 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subject: Circus Fiction.
Depressions 1929 Fiction.
Circus performers Fiction.
Crisis económicas Novela. bidex
Circos Novela. bidex
Artistas Novela. bidex
Love stories.
Notes: Translation of: Water for elephants.
Summary: "Cuando el joven Jacob pierde todo, incluso su familia y su futuro, y el mundo entero parece al borde del abismo en los difíciles años treinta, se aventura en un circo ambulante para trabajar como veterinario. Transcurren años de penuria y crueldad, pero también de ensueño y plenitud: en el deslumbrante espectáculo de los hermanos Benzini, las emociones más profundas surgen cuando se cruzasn los destinos de un hombre, una mujer y la elefanta Rosie bajo la carpa del circo."--Desde la descripción de la editorial.
A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there that he meets Marlena, the beautiful young star of the equestrian act, who is married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. He also meets Rosie, an elephant who seems untrainable until he discovers a way to reach her.
