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An Elephant in the Garden
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Description
An Elephant in the Garden is Simon Reade’s new adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s best-selling children’s novel.
1945. 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.
Escaping 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.
It 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.
Product details
| Published | 14 Oct 2014 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 60 |
| ISBN | 9781783191741 |
| Imprint | Oberon Books |
| Dimensions | 0 x 0 mm |
| Series | Oberon Modern Plays |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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