Elephant in the Garden - Michael Morpurgo

Descriere Elephant in the Garden - Michael Morpurgo

\nAn Elephant in the Garden is Simon Reade's new adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's best-selling children's novel. \n1945. Dresden, Germany. Lizzie, her mother - and an elephant from the zoo, flee the Allied fire-bombing in the end-game of the Second World War. \n \nEscaping the Allies' advance from the West - and also the advancing Russian armies from the East - this extraordinary trio of refugees meet: a downed RAF officer, cowering in a barn; a homeless school choir on the run and their Countess saviour, harbouring them from the Nazis; and the mechanised American cavalry, appearing over the horizon. \n \nIt is Lizzie's story - but Marlene, the elephant, is the heroine. Plodding, obdurate, opportunistic, loadbearing, indestructible, cheering - Marlene embodies the stubbornness of the human will and how it will do everything to survive.\n

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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

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ENSTK

EAN / GTIN

9781783191741

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1

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