- fiction, historical fiction, portuguese fiction, elephants
From back cover: In 1551, King Joao III of Portugal gives Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: an elephant named Solomon, along with his keeper, Subhro. The two have been living in dismal conditions, forgotten in a corner of the palace grounds. ...
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- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- José Saramago
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 215
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Mariner Books
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780547352589
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José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE ComSE GColCa (Portuguese: [ʒuˈzɛ ðɨ ˈso(w).zɐ sɐɾɐˈmaɣu]; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010), was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Saramago)
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