TY  - BOOK
AU  - Holthe, Tess Uriza
TI  - When the elephants dance: a novel 
SN  - 0-609-60952-1
AV  - PS 9993.H65  .W574 2002 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York
PB  -  Crown Pub.
KW  - Philippine fiction (English)
KW  - sears
KW  - War stories
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Philippines
N2  - 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. The Karangalan family and their neighbors huddle for survival in the cellar of a house a few miles from Manila. Outside the safety of their little refuge the war rages on-fiery bombs torch the beautiful Filipino countryside, Japanese soldiers round up and interrogate innocent people, and from the hills guerillas wage a desperate campaign against the enemy. Inside the cellar, these men, women, and children put their hopes and dreams on hold as they wait out the war, only emerging to look for food, water, and medicine
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