Water for Elephants - Trailer - Bookreview

Enjoy this wonderful trailer.... and read the book, it is just great!

Please read my short review of the book:
Water for Elephants


Water for Elephants is a novel by Sara Gruen (2006) a story about a 93 - years old guy who spends his sad and boring days in an old people`s asylum. He dreams about his youth in 1931 when he studied science to become a vet at an Ivy League university (Cornell University).
Just before his exams both his parents die in an accident. To pay for his education his father had mortgaged their house, so the young man remains completely poor and alone. In a sort of stupor he leaves his studies and starts running away without knowing where his feet will carry him.
In the darkness of the following night he jumps onto a passing train. As it is a circus train, he ends up being a vet for the working animals and stays with the circus folks for some months. It is an adventurous stay, tragic and forceful. His life completely changes during the coming years. In retrospect the old man ponders about his adventurous years.
The story is fascinating, because we are invited to spend some time in a circus of the early years of the 20th century, we learn how it was organized, how the people lived together doing their different tasks, how they were paid and what hardship they had to bear. It is a psychological analyses of strange characters, of love and hatred, of diseases and the power of will.

Looking forward to watching the film I can only propose to read this book. It is a good read!!!
Gripping and informative!

Knowing that Robert Pattinson will be Jacob, makes me look forward to the film even more. Jacob's character is full of good features. He is naive, sensitive and active as well as committed and caring, which makes him a very lovable person.
The old Jacob suffers a lot in many different ways - I won't tell you more... 

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