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When the Elephants Dance

When the Elephants Dance

Author(s): Tess Uriza Holthe

Location(s): Manila

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): WW"

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Once in a great while comes a storyteller who can illuminate worlds large and small, magical and true to life. When the Elephants Dance introduces us to the incandescent voice of Tess Uriza Holthe, who sets her remarkable first novel in the waning days of World War II, as the Japanese and the Americans engage in a fierce battle for possession of the Philippine Islands.

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The story is written from different angles, as tales from different people surviving through the war. War scenes written in the way one can imagine them. Gave me an impression that many wonderful places in...

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