Elephant Tears

About This Novel

Jacob's simple life with no worries about food and clothing came to an abrupt end when he was 23 years old: his parents died, he was penniless, and he was forced to run away from a prestigious veterinary school. By chance, he became a veterinarian for "the Benzini Brothers' largest circus in the world", touring along the railway lines and experiencing the most bizarre places during the Great Depression in the United States in the 1930s. The circus, a world that presents life and death in its own unique way. Here, freaks and clowns take turns to perform, and joy, anger, sorrow and joy are performed at the same time. For Jacob, the circus is his salvation, but it is also a purgatory on earth, the station of his dreams, and the beginning of displacement... He falls in love with the circus star Malena - the beautiful and pitiful Malena has been mistakenly married to the handsome but cruel circus director August. An elephant named Rosie is a magic weapon bequeathed by a circus owner who lost all his money, but he can't understand even the simplest commands. Whispering, wailing, and howling, Rosie was tortured every day under August's cruel elephant hook. Jacob, Marlena, and Rosie, in the dazzling moments of dancing, leaping, somersaulting, and turning, in order to fight, eat, and survive, relying on and trusting each other, they look for a romantic and terrifying way out together. And this became a secret that Jacob kept for seventy years.

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