Large Print Book
The elephant of Belfast
Audience Adults
Published 2021 by Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, Waterville, Maine
ISBN 9781432889777
Bib Id 2463158
Copyright 2021
Edition Large print edition.
Description 527 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
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The elephant of Belfast
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Large print edition.
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2021 by Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, Waterville, Maine :
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©2021
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527 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Summary
"In October 1940, Hettie meets Violet, a three-year-old Asian elephant arriving at the Belfast docks from Ceylon. Soon, she becomes Violet's dedicated zookeeper at the Bellevue Zoo. At the same time, Hettie continues to experience the grief related to the recent loss of her beloved older sister, Anna, and the abandonment of her father, Thomas, who left her mother, Rose. On April 15th, 1941, Belfast is attacked for five hours, with 674 bombs falling, and almost a thousand civilians being killed. During the bombings and its aftermath, Hettie does all that she can to save her elephant, and survive the destruction and escalating sectarian unrest of the city. Even though Hettie is still only twenty years old by the novel's end, she's aged at least a decade, her life and perspective transforming in tragic and unexpected ways."--
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