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    Elefant
    Elefant
    Elefant
    Audiobook6 hours

    Elefant

    Written by Martin Suter

    Narrated by Ash Rizi

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    About this audiobook

    The international bestseller about friendship, second chances, and a tiny glow-in-the-dark pink elephant

    ‘The most enjoyable novel I’ve read all year’ Elizabeth McKenzie, author of The Portable Veblen

    'I loved Elefant! It was a complete tonic' Seni Glaister, author of The Museum of Things Left Behind

    ‘It's easy to fall in love with this novel because it's easy to fall in love with its main character, a tiny, glowing, pink elephant.’ Homer Hickam, author of Carry Albert Home

    What would you do if you woke up to see a living, breathing, tiny, glowing, pink elephant? If you’re anything like Schoch, who lives on the streets of Zürich and is decidedly down on his luck, you might well think it’s time to put away the bottle before your hallucinations get any stranger, and go back to sleep.

    But what if the tiny pink elephant is still there when you wake up? And clearly needs someone to take care of it? And what if you discover that it’s been created through genetic engineering, by a group of scientists who just want to use it to get rich and don’t care about the elephant’s welfare? And that they’re in cahoots with a circus and will stop at nothing to get it back?

    What if this little elephant is about to change your life?
    What would you do if you woke up to see a living, breathing, tiny, glowing, pink elephant? If you’re anything like Schoch, who lives on the streets of Zürich and is decidedly down on his luck, you might well think it’s time to put away the bottle before your hallucinations get any stranger, and go back to sleep.

    But what if the tiny pink elephant is still there when you wake up? And clearly needs someone to take care of it? And what if you discover that it’s been created through genetic engineering, by a group of scientists who just want to use it to get rich and don’t care about the elephant’s welfare? And that they’re in cahoots with a circus and will stop at nothing to get it back?

    What if this little elephant is about to change your life?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    TranslatorJamie Bulloch
    Release dateMay 31, 2018
    ISBN9780008264307
    Elefant
    Author

    Martin Suter

    Martin Suter is a writer, columnist and screenwriter. Until 1991 he worked as a creative director in advertising, before deciding to focus exclusively on writing. His novels have enjoyed huge international success. He has also written screenplays for film and television, and several of his novels have been made into films. Martin lives in Zurich with his family.

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    • 5/5
      Awww poor little tiny pink elephant.

      This book was given to me for my birthday by my friend, Heidi. She loved the book and knows how much I love elephants so she thought it would be the perfect book for me, and it was.

      Why does a homeless man have a tiny pink elephant that glows in the dark? How is this elephant possible? Where did she come from? What is he going to do with her? What is going to happen to her? Where can I get one?

      Since Dumbo comes out this month you might as well make it a month of elephants and read this book.
    • 5/5
      Martin Suter greift in seinem neuesten Roman ein brisantes Thema auf: Gentechnologie, bedenkenlos auf Ruhm, vor allem aber auf die riesigen Geschäftsmöglichkeiten ausgerichtet.

      Der Obdachlose Schoch übernimmt gemeinsam mit der Tierärztin Valerie Sommer die Verantwortung für diesen besonderen kleinen Elefanten, ebenso wie auch der Elefantenflüsterer Kaung. Der Genforscher Roux und sein mächtiger Geschäftspartner, ein ebenso skrupelloser chinesischer Forschungskonzern geben nicht so leicht auf – sie wollen das Ergebnis ihrer Forschungen zurück, mit allen Mitteln.

      Ich habe alle Bücher von Martin Suter gelesen, nur die Kurzgeschichten nicht. Hier zeigt uns der Autor eine neue Facette seines Könnens und erzählt uns eine Geschichte, die ebenso spannend, wie magisch ist. Man legt das Buch nach der letzten Seite mit einem Lächeln aus der Hand. Das Thema und Anliegen dieses Romans regen noch lange zum Nachdenken an.

      Diesen Roman hat alles für jeden Leser: ein wichtiges Thema, klar gezeichnete, stimmige Charaktere, Spannung, Romantik, Poesie, Magie und die Sprache eines gewandten Erzählers.