Age is a terrible thief. Just when you understand how life works, you will cut the legs and immobilize the spine.
Jacob Jancowski has ninety-three. Or ninety.
When you reach a certain age it becomes increasingly difficult to remember even the simplest things.
Yet there is something that Jacob, now a guest in a fixed facility for the elderly, will never forget. Something which has never been a word to anyone, a secret that we are just unveiled the first pages of this magical book, just a hint ... before the curtain opens up before our eyes and the show begins.
are the thirties in the United States, the years of the Great Depression.
Jancowski Jacob, a student in one of the most prestigious universities in the country, is about to graduate and succeed in veterinary the father in the family firm. His life is the life of any twenty year old from a good family, with a bright future in front of him. At least until the day when his parents both die in a car accident, and Jacob is alone, private study of his family and the house, seized as a result of the huge debts accumulated by his father.
The only solution to a desperate situation, or if nothing else, the only one that Jacob sees before him, is that of flight, and it is exactly this time that fate opened for him a new, unusual door, making so the boy comes across in the night in a train made up of several carriages, to which he clings as if it were the last beach.
The train turns out to be that of 'Big Brother petrol', a name borrowed from the director of the circus that travels over the dishonest Uncle Al, and the world in which Jacob land will be fascinating and, in many ways terrible , the traveling circuses: freaks, acrobats and exotic animals of all kinds. But even a despotic and sadistic tamer, August Rosenbluth, and his charming wife Marlena, the star of the circus, the girl of horses, for which Jacob now test an intense and inexplicable attraction.
The world of the circus first appears as the ideal place to vent their frustration, and Jacob willingly accepts the proposal to participate as a veterinarian, proposal addressed to the devious director who for years sought to join a 'real' veterinarian and his staff.
Soon, however, Jacob realizes that the golden, glittering world of the circus is far from the show that is staged every night: in the extreme conditions faced by animals, and experts are mostly inhumane, and two figures, over all, are the most vulnerable to wickedness and the madness of despotic August: Marlena and Rosie, the sweet elephant for which Jacob feels a deep affection.
In a perfect and balanced alternation of flashbacks, Elder Jacob remembers his life in those years, revealing, at last, the shocking secret that has long been the silenced. Final
moving and full of optimism.
Sara Gruen's writing is nice and smooth, and the book runs off like a dream. In the final footnotes the author does not fail to remember that writing this novel has long documented the traveling circuses of the time, and admits that many details of the story, especially the excessive, are taken from real events, leaving the reader rather dismayed.
for April is expected to release the film in Italian cinemas:
To interpret Jacob will be Robert Pattinson, who do not particularly like, although I must admit I find it perfectly well for this part, and Marlena will be played by Reese Witherspoon.
The trailer portends a movie well done, consistent with the book and in keeping with the spirit passed on from the work, I'm very curious!
And what do you think, inspires you?
Official Trailer
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