Water for Elephants

莎拉·格鲁恩（Sara Gruen），对动物有着莫名的狂热，先前出版过两本与马有关的书，都广受欢迎。书中很多的角色都是根据真实人物为蓝本，故事背景则是根据1930年代的巡回马戏团。她现与丈夫、三名子女、四只猫、两头羊、两条狗、一匹马同住在芝加哥北部的环保小区。

出版者:Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

作者:Sara Gruen

页数:335

出版时间:2006-05-26

价格:USD 23.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781565124998

图书标签:小说大象的眼泪外国文学fiction獸醫，愛情，人世間英文英文原版Novel

Though he may not speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob Jankowski's ninety-something-year-old mind. Memories of himself as a young man, tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Memories of a world filled with freaks and clowns, with wonder and pain and anger and passion; a world with its own narrow, irrational rules, its own way of life, and its own way of death. The world of the circus: to Jacob it was both salvation and a living hell.

Jacob was there because his luck had run out—orphaned and penniless, he had no direction until he landed on this locomotive "ship of fools." It was the early part of the Great Depression, and everyone in this third-rate circus was lucky to have any job at all. Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, was there because she fell in love with the wrong man, a handsome circus boss with a wide mean streak. And Rosie the elephant was there because she was the great gray hope, the new act that was going to be the salvation of the circus; the only problem was, Rosie didn't have an act—in fact, she couldn't even follow instructions. The bond that grew among this unlikely trio was one of love and trust, and ultimately, it was their only hope for survival.

Surprising, poignant, and funny, Water for Elephants is that rare novel with a story so engrossing, one is reluctant to put it down; with characters so engaging, they continue to live long after the last page has been turned; with a world built of wonder, a world so real, one starts to breathe its air.

读后感

午夜的马戏团开场， 芭比人偶坐在长颈鹿的脖子上， 用涂着桃红色指甲的手遥指西北方。 琥珀眼睛的大象扬起长鼻， 在尖顶帐篷上轻轻旋转起舞。 黑色的幕布下， 隐藏了白日的秘密。 改变，接受，寻找，挣扎， 在遗忘了这所有之前， 我要为你买一根棉花糖。 把你甜丝丝...  

【读品】罗豫/文 生长在小地方的老辈中国人，大概都不会忘记上个世纪前半叶那些走南闯北的戏班子。几乎同一时期，在地球的另一侧，马戏则是美国民间重要的娱乐活动。“班”和“团”，我们很难想象这究竟只是字面差异，还是确实标识出某种规模上的不同。尤其看到许多动画片上的...  

午夜的马戏团开场， 芭比人偶坐在长颈鹿的脖子上， 用涂着桃红色指甲的手遥指西北方。 琥珀眼睛的大象扬起长鼻， 在尖顶帐篷上轻轻旋转起舞。 黑色的幕布下， 隐藏了白日的秘密。 改变，接受，寻找，挣扎， 在遗忘了这所有之前， 我要为你买一根棉花糖。 把你甜丝丝...  

花了兩天晚上斷斷續續看完了。預想中的沒有感動，現在很少有標榜著灑淚的書可以真的讓人哭了。所以，看書還是不要看廣告詞的好，不然會被誤導。 這本書，不是走的感人路數，也應該不是走華美詞藻路綫。看到豆瓣上好多人在對它表現出失望，埋怨它的詞滙平白空洞，還有就幹脆直...  

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用户评价

产生不了共鸣的书没有什么大感。。

原版总是更有味道

原版总是更有味道

很棒的阅读体验，没想到大象那么可爱～

看不下去~~~~看不下去