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Original Title:	When the Elephants Dance
ISBN:	0142002887 (ISBN13: 9780142002889)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Philippines

When the Elephants Dance

Tess Uriza Holthe

Paperback | Pages: 368 pages

Rating: 4.04 | 2917 Users | 425 Reviews

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Title	:	When the Elephants Dance
Author	:	Tess Uriza Holthe
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	June 24th 2003 by Penguin Books (first published 2002)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Asia

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In the waning days of World War II, as the Japanese and U.S. forces battle to possess the Philippine Islands, the Karangalan family hides with their neighbors in a cramped cellar, where they glean hope from the family stories and folktales they tell each other. These stories of love, survival, and family blend the supernatural with the rich, little known history of the Philippines, the centuries of Spanish colonization, the power of the Catholic church, and the colorful worlds of the Spanish, Mestizo, and Filipino cultures.

As the villagers tell their stories in the darkened cellar below, Holthe masterfully weaves in the stories of three brave Filipinos--a teenage brother and sister and a guerilla fighter--as they become caught in the battle against the vicious Japanese forces above ground.

Inspired by her father's firsthand accounts of this period, Tess Uriza Holthe brings to magical and terrifying life a story of the hope and courage needed to survive in wartime.

"Voices once silent sing out load and clear...A powerful tale of the Philippine Islands and a testament to the resilience and courage of the Filipino people."--Gail Tsukiyama, San Francisco Chronicle

"Readers who loved Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude or Isabelle Allende's The House of the Spirits will welcome this novel."--The New Orleans Times-Picayune

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Didn't think I'd like this book when I first picked it up. Honestly, it was the best choice at the time (New Arrivals at B&N). Boy, was I mistaken. I was drawn into the plot within the first three pages, and addicted since. Since I am also a huge fan of Asia-based stories, I easily clicked into it. The setting is in Philippines during the Japanese invastion and Tess, the author, has an excellent voice and descriptive style. Hauntingly beautiful and soulfully written. I wonder why authors

First sentence: Papa explains the war like this: When the elephants dance, the chickens must be careful.. I first picked up this book because of the title and this opening line. The elephants in this tale are the Japanese and Americans fighting over the Philippines. The Filipinos are the chickens. The novel takes place during WWII, towards the end of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines. The Filipinos had suffered greatly during those three years of occupation. They were starving, and

I was sucked into this book and found myself reading it late into the night. It takes place in the Philippines at the end of WWII when the Japanese are beginning to lose hold of the island. The is a part of fairly recent history that I shamefully didn't know much about. We always hear about Corregidor and MacArthur, because those were American sufferings and American heroes, but we never hear about how horribly the Philippine people suffered not only under the Japanese during WWII but previously



From the title and opening chapter explanation of when the elephants dance to the last adieus of Mabuhay, this book is rife with symbolism and Filipino folklore. The story revolves around a diverse group of people hiding from the Japanese in the basement of a village home. Time is passed when members of the group tell the stories of their lives. Each story is unique and lends a different perspective on Philippine culture. I was impressed with the way the author was able to put so much material

Posted also on AmazonTess Uriza Holthe has a lot of brio attempting to take on the horrific Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II, as well as Filipino tradition, folklore, and geography, all while explaining this mass to a (presumedly) Western audience.Unfortunately, this attempt to make an extremely representative Filipino work (as she indicates she intended to do in the intro of my edition) may have crippled the ultimate product.Not that there isn't a lot of good in the

This book is not for the faint of heart by any means. It's graphic about the torture and suffering that the people in the Philippines went through at the hands of the Japanese during WWII. Just reading some of the experiences that people went through was horrific and disturbed me to my core. I'm not an expert on WWII nor on the history of the Philippine Islands so I can't comment on how accurate Holthe's retelling of history is. However, her writing is captivating. The book is divided into four