Elephant's Journey
«It is extremely funny. Old 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
A delightful historical fable based on a true story about an Indian elephant, who, in obedience to the absurd caprice of a sixteenth-century monarch, travels from Lisbon to Vienna Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Vintage Classics
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 224
- ISBN
- 9781784871796
- Utgivelsesår
- 2017
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Anmeldelser
«It is extremely funny. Old 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
«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