Water for Elephants

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Condición del ejemplar: Very Good. Jacob Jankowski is ninety years old, or perhaps ninety-three, and living in a nursing home, when the arrival of a circus nearby stirs memories he has kept to himself for seventy years. In 1931, at the height of the Great Depression, Jacob was a veterinary student at Cornell on the brink of graduation when sudden tragedy left him orphaned and penniless. Lost and with nowhere to go, he jumped onto a passing train, which turned out to belong to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth, a struggling traveling circus. Hired to care for the menagerie, Jacob enters a world of glamour and squalor, where hardened workers are thrown from the train when wages run out and where survival depends on loyalty and luck. There he falls in love with Marlena, the beautiful star of the equestrian act, who is married to August, the charismatic but dangerously unstable animal trainer. And he forms a bond with Rosie, an elephant everyone believes to be untrainable, until Jacob discovers her secret. Vivid, romantic and richly researched, Sara Gruen’s bestselling novel is a story of love, cruelty, loyalty and redemption set against the dazzling backdrop of the Depression-era circus. Adapted into a major motion picture, Water for Elephants is a captivating read that lingers long after the last page.