Bücher von Sara Gruen

THE INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNOW A FILM STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON AND ROBERT PATTINSON'Great story, loads of fun; hard to put down.' STEPHEN KING'Satisfyingly rich, outlandish and inspiring' Daily Telegraph'Exotic and erotic, filled with colour and passion' FTThe Great Depression, 1929. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and utterly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits in the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth: a second-rate travelling circus struggling to survive by making one-night stands in town after endless town. Jacob, a veterinary student now unable to finish his degree, is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. He meets Marlena, the beautiful young star of the equestrian act, married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. He also meets Rosie, an elephant who seems untrainable until he discovers a way to reach her. Illuminated by a wonderful sense of time and place, Water for Elephants tells a story of a love between two people that overcomes incredible odds, in a world in which love is a luxury few can afford.

There is a time to move on, a time to let go . . . and a time to fly.Anxiety rules Annemarie Zimmer's days--the fear that her relationship with the man she loves is growing stagnant; the fear that her equestrian daughter Eva's dreams of Olympic glory will carry her far away from her mother . . . and into harm's way. For five months, Annemarie has struggled to make peace with her past. But if she cannot let go, the personal battles she has won and the heights she has achieved will have all been for naught.It is a time of change at Maple Brook Horse Farm, when loves must be confronted head-on and fears must be saddled and broken. But it is an unanticipated tragedy that will most drastically alter the fragile world of one remarkable family--even as it flings open gates that have long confined them, enabling them all to finally ride headlong and free.

Chicago in den 1930er Jahre: Der junge Tierarzt Jacob Jankowski steht nach dem Unfalltod seiner Eltern vor dem Nichts. Als ihm bei »Benzinis spektakulärster Show der Welt«, einem drittklassigen Wanderzirkus, ein Job angeboten wird, findet er unter den Artisten, den menschlichen Kuriositäten und den überall hinter den Kulissen schuftenden Helfern rasch Freunde. Und die wunderbaren Tiere der Menagerie werden zu seiner neuen Familie. Bald verliert er auch sein Herz: an die zauberhafte Dressurreiterin Marlena - und fast gleichermaßen an Rosie, eine reizende, verfressene Elefantendame, die hartnäckig jedes Kunststück verweigert. Leider ist Rosies Sturheit in den Hungerzeiten der Großen Depression ein echtes Problem - wenn auch kein so großes wie Marlenas gefährlich eifersüchtiger Ehemann.