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

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Seriously, this book was like drinking cold guava juice on a sweltering day. It is World War II and the Americans are fighting to take back control of the Philippines. Meanwhile, the Filipinos must hide and wait out the war because the ones caught are being tortured and held in Japanese camps."Papa says that the Philippines is far, far behind the other countries. He says that we are like abused children who have never been allowed to grow. How can we care for ourselves when we have always been

My sister-in-law gave this book for my unexpected trip to the Philippines. I didn't open the book til I got to my grandparents home and ... I was completely absorbed & had a hard time putting this book down (it was as if I was reading a long lost relative's diary). I caught myself pausing amongst certain chapters, looking at where I was at the current time, and just imagining what took place over 50 years ago here in the Philippines. This book provided pieces of Philippine history that I

(Final view, on completion of the book, found at the end.)*****************Oh, I am struggling...... Every chapter is the voice of another character. In this way you see what is going on in the head of the prime characters. That I have no complaint with. What I hate is that in each chapter there is also a story. And that story has always a moral. These stories chop up the book, and they are so simplistic. I just swore, OMG, here comes this chapter's story. Here comes the lesson. This is like a

An extended family is living in hiding in the basement of their home in the Philippines during the Japanese attacks of WWII. They must occasionally leave to search for food. The memories they share to pass the time and support each other are the main substance of the book. I know very little about the Phillipines and was interested in the feeling expressed between those of Spanish descent and the natives.

this book came to me as a gift from a dear friend and i was eager to read it, since my own family comes from the Philippines and this book tells the little known history of this country of over 7,100 islands. set in World War II during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. this novel puts great emotional demands on the reader, your heart breaks at the extreme suffering and tragedy of war and the ravages of colonialism. but ultimately you celebrate the strength of the human spirit and the

The Power of Stories(A Book Review of Tess Uriza Holthes When the Elephants Dance)A group of neighbors seek shelter in the cellar of an abandoned house. They are cramped, huddled on the dirt, starving and terrified. Outside fierce gun battle rages on, bomb patters like rain drop on the pockmarked beauty of Manila and its countryside. Fires ablaze, consuming everything on its path in a deathly embrace.This is the image that first bored it way in my mind while reading When The Elephants Dance,

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